In 1997, there were 37 search engine companies, none of them Google; if they had been able to lock Google out through regulation, they would have, preventing the emergence of the dominant search platform.

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Marc Andreessen

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we're at this place where the companies are very big but the uh Moes aren't very wide uh so the way to think about it it's like we're basically at search in the on the internet Circa 1997 when there were 37 search companies none of them called Google um and if they could have locked Google out they would have

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