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WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You
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So then you look at the really big Internet companies and services, and you see this pattern over and over. Look at Google, the biggest. They are really good at speed. They cover a wide range of human desires, answers, solutions, information. They make it so easy. There’s one box. You don’t even have to come close to spelling anything correctly, an... See more
Evan Williams • "A Journey on the Information Highway"
Thanks to this powerful data network effect, Google was able to move down the stack. Google wasn’t “just a website” anymore, it became an aggregator that commoditized all other websites and made them layers on top of Google’s.
Julian Lehr • The Power of Defaults
Super-AggregatorsWhat makes Facebook and Google unique is that not only do they have zero transaction costs when it comes to serving end users, they also have zero transaction costs when it comes to both suppliers and advertisers.Start with supply: not only is the vast majority of online content accessible to Google’s search engine (unsurprisingly,... See more
stratechery.com • The Super-Aggregators and the Russians
