Well sure, that's the point - there would be little benefit from building a good search engine if you couldn't choose a different one. Google has to be great because otherwise somebody will get all its traffic. A monopoly can give lousy service because you can't leave.
True, but if the search engine is lousy there won't be much traffic. Google has gone to great lengths to build a service that lots of us wouldn't want to live without. So why worry?
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Well sure, that's the point - there would be little benefit from building a good search engine if you couldn't choose a different one. Google has to be great because otherwise somebody will get all its traffic. A monopoly can give lousy service because you can't leave.
True, but if the search engine is lousy there won't be much traffic. Google has gone to great lengths to build a service that lots of us wouldn't want to live without. So why worry?