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Re:Google Search Now Includes Etymology by vermillion on Monday November 04, 2013 @12:47PM (#6669976)
90% market share implies a position similar to IE6 some years ago, a de facto standard.

With respect to RSS, Google launched a free product, poured millions into it. If you're not Google you can't compete with that. It was devastating. It destroyed everything. And with only their product standing, Google said, "you know what? I'll kill RSS dead, you have some months to transfer to my closed proprietary format/social network, Google+, the new standard". So it's in fact the EEE strategy.

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Re:Google Search Now Includes Etymology by icebraining on Monday November 04, 2013 @01:15PM (#6670139)
Are you claiming that they poured millions into Reader for eight years as part of a plan to gain a few users to a service that didn't even exist at the time?
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