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First mover advantage. Imre popular during this period of Web startapim perennial. As already strong established thought players-big fish – you can simply move the fixup niche small fry and bring it to market mass-Wikipedia, the free rider effect.
Group by is arguably the case for instance. As a young gun from Chicago described as the fastest growing company in the world, bid $ 6bn, only for Google, Facebook such heavyweights to begin muscle of the same coupon, sensing their huge ecosystems already at least the new guy will not relevant.
This is a textbook case. What happens when that produces is a little higher up foodchain? We may be about to find out.
Google has accused the Microsoft Bing search engine of monitoring their results for search terms and try to imitate them on it. While kudos on March 21 to go to the Googleplex for their search engine to find proof, this interesting feel Microsoft free riding bamiicert size of Google can work in practice.
Think about it, what NASDAQ has your computer strong these days?
Besides hard to ignore the growing band of Apple eaters, personally I can't remember the last time I used Office or IE, two previously heavily rely on it systems by Microsoft to cross sell/arm twist users into other services. Sure they still have the operating system. But then there's legal battles but nshdado them leverage that previously gave them.
Google on the other hand has a suite of Web services quickly grew developing integrated with their search – when you sign into Google, you get their services without downloading 1 byte.
Mimicking Google search does Bing-and by extension Microsoft-definitely not good at all, because their ecosystem is no longer played.
Indeed if informed opinion is anything to go by, it should be trying to differentiate, not play copycat.