Ask Jeeves is making a comeback!!
Everyone talks about Ask Jeeves, but no one remembers my beloved HotBot :(
Lycos had a dog, which was nice.
Webcrawler (which is still around https://www.webcrawler.com/)
Shoot that Infoseek goodness right into my veins
When Dogpile was right there? 😄
Donnie just said he is going to shut down Google. Is someone feeding Donnie insider info on ongoing litigations? 🤔
Maybe they should just have not been evil.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/business/google-loses-antitrust-lawsuit-doj/index.html
Coming from an entrepreneurial background, I tend to lean towards the advantages of allowing high economic growth incentives for the people who invent or improve on things in the world. I think this is the best incentive structure ever conceived for promoting advancements.
But more and more I realize that as a society we need stronger antitrust controls to keep the behemoths from becoming modern day fiefdoms.
If a company corners a market, it should be pushed into divesting so that it doesn’t become a black hole and vacuum up everything around it, which inevitably leads to bad outcomes.
This kind of a policy could serve to reboot the investors so they have to go back and invest in something new or competitive again, rather than horde it.
