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		andrewflnr 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unima... It used to be their high search quality, difficult to replicate technology. Now they don't have one.

mcphage 7 months ago | [–]

Well, Google’s willingness to pay potential competitors tens of billions of dollars per year to disincentivize developing a competing search engine is kind of a moat.

asadotzler 7 months ago | [–]

Their moat is lock-in across services now. People are "Google" users not just "web search" users.

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