Keep the thoughts coming cm
To put your thoughts in another way -- saying search engines are a commodity on the web is like saying VCRs are a commodity. Tech improvement, brand names, ease of use, will still sell a lot of machines and make a profit. Intel owns a "commodity" machine -- does that make intel a poor choice (maybe when it promises what it won't deliver".
Larry your points (as on cnkt board are interesting). I don't have specific answers, but I think the quicky algoirithms will have a share of the market -- but as you point out, the market is growing, with potential limited only by the size, and imagination, of our species.
There are loads of soda brands, newspapers, and newspaper chains, but there are only a couple of cokes, pepsis, NYT, Washington Posts, Economists, etc. It gets harder every day for someone else to do a Murdock or Turner on the top brands -- It will happen, but even those two did not displace their rivals -- only joined them.
Lastly, Newspapers are commodities, but when USA Today came along with a well-thought out business model and some new technology (regarding color) it was successful --- So the game goes to the Best Management and providing what people (many different groups of) want. |
