Any search company that is at a Show HN stage is quite far from really even beginning to threaten Google, unless they've managed to play politics to ensure regulatory capture to an extent that product quality is irrelevant.
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. There are some legit upstarts working on their own indexes, but let's not kid ourselves.
Anyone going head-on against google will lose.
I think the strategy will be many, many smaller search engines, focused on niches. Curated by their care-takers who wear their expertise and biases in a transparent way.
I'm quite opinionated here because this is my focus in 2021
The product is ready, I tried it. It works as advertised.
They're attempting the search problem is a completely different way.
They're getting ready for public launch.
Google overplayed their hand, they'll pay the price rather soon. Do not ever blackmail countries.
Facebook and Google search have no leverage like they think. Any country can insta ban them like China did, and have their own alternative at this point if they talk too much and don't follow the local laws. They'll figure it out rather soon.
They need Australia more then Australia needs them.
In the past only China scale countries could afford to ban companies that bully states. Now even medium sized countries will have a level playing field. Follow the laws or get out.
Well I'll be glad to see some real competition in search when I actually see it, but if that's all you have to offer, I'm sorry no one's going to believe you.
