Remember when Google used to be one of the good guys?
Remember when Google used to be one of the good guys?
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I think it's like a life cycle of a company when it goes public it doesn't works for itself or it's products then it's just numbers game.
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So what's the 2025 1999 Google?
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We don't have one. Running a search engine is expensive and you can no longer just run on endless amounts of VC. You need a way to make money somehow. Kagi might be the closest (I haven't tried it because Google is still generally usable for me, but I've heard good things), but it's not free.
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You can still run on endless amounts of VC. You just have to pretend to be the next big thing. Right now that’s AI.
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From a perspective of "new tech that hasn't solved monetization or is still looking for investors/a buyer/ipo while it burns away at venture capital"?
Probably the free versions of Ai. The AI wars are peak right now with all the free samples you can get.
Perplexity searches live internet and is pretty good at it. Gpt does too I think, but isn't as ready with the sources.
You have to think of it like tech inflation. Yeah, they're probably tracking you and stealing your data, etc But in today's internet, that's the bare minimum of a startup (compared to 1999, when tracking was a red flag)
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