/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>50187464
>if people stop using it
it's just not gonna happen
it's the most visited site in the world by a huge, huge, huge margin
>pic related
it is now so entrenched, with so many active daily users, that have spent 10+ years using it, that the likelihood of a competitor coming along and becoming the dominant search engine, or even capturing some of the market share, is extremely unlikely
look at how Bing did - a company with all the resources of MSFT behind it
~80 million people use duckduckgo
44 billlion just a little bit bigger than 80 million
and I want to be clear I'm not arguing that GOOG is a buy here, or that it's currently trading at discount - I haven't done a deep enough dive on their financials to be able to say that