On: Waymo raises first external investment round

[alasdair_]

> Close to unbreakable and getting stronger over time (you won't be able to build a better search engine than Google unless you have as much data as Google).

Google actually lost market share of search last year, mostly to Amazon (lots of people just do their product-related searches on Amazon now).

[mxschumacher → alasdair_]

Yes, the competition with Amazon is really intense. Market share might have been lost, Alphabet's bottom line has not been hurt as a result.