Yeah but AOL Instant Messenger was the leader for Instant Messaging as well as many other search engines being popular before google came along.
Originally Posted by
gglave
What I've always found interesting is how there's never successfully been 'one' player on the internet who gives you everything as a one stop shop.
Once they get market share, unless they do something really crazy, you can't topple one of the market leaders. I mean who is ever going to topple -
- YoutubeGoogle for video sharing
- Flickr for picture sharing
- MSN for Instant Messaging
- Google for Search & Street View
- eBay for Auctions
- Twitter for Microblogging
- Amazon for Books
- Yahoo! for value-added web content like Yahoo! Questions, Yahoo! Groups etc.
- Facebook for social networking
etc.
Others might occasionally try to take a bite out of someone else (Bing Maps nipping Google Maps, for example), but unless one monster acquires the other in my opinion they're never going to get market share.