Google—Competition is just one click and 27 billion US dollars away

That meant there were three strategies available to media companies looking to survive on the Internet. First, cater to Google. This meant a heavy emphasis on both speed and SEO, and an investment in anticipating and creating content to answer consumer questions. Or you could cater to Facebook, which meant a heavy emphasis on click-bait and human i... See more

Neeva, DDG, or Startpage, cannot be real competition, even though they could have nice features worth copying. Google and Microsoft will never be scared of them because they can be strangled at any time, simply by limiting or throttling access to their APIs... A tenant cannot really challenge their landlord, and that's why at Brave we went with the... See more