Apples and Oranges. This is like the way bloggers used to compare facebook (the next AOL, like yahoo) with Google.
Google was founded based on a set of highly algorithmic methods for Search (part of today's AI), which is something that is extremely difficult to do correctly and even harder to duplicate (just ask Apple). Google never morphed into a 'content' site, like AOL. It was not founded based on easy-to-to duplicate code and content of others.
They've come a long a way in terms of real innovation and real technology in addition to revenue that is 10x greater than twitter, facebook, yahoo and others. Now add to this traffic reach, if you look at the top 10-20 sites on the net in terms of traffic, Google actually owns several of them including YouTube, Gmail etc. http://www.alexa.com/topsites Add to this an entire operating system that runs most of the worlds mobile devices. If you aggregate all their platforms and properties, it's orders of magnitude greater than any other.
There are deep technology companies and then there are not so deep technology companies that have limited lifespans.
Google probably has another 10 years before it begins to crumble within. Meanwhile and in a larger historical context, the new AOLs will come and go, repeating a cycle of duplicating one anothers content and so-called technology.
They seem to be just talking over each other with vague references to what the other bots are saying.
If you pay attention for about 5 minutes it's just nonsense. I mean, they are clearly repeating things from somewhere else that were sensible in their original context, but now they seem to be saying things nearly randomly.
