Duck Duck Go? Really?

(tongue in cheek)

The point was that large unstoppable incumbents have always been replaced with something nobody expected.

(that said, monsanto and debeers are still around)

IBM is still around. So is Microsoft. So is Google.

IBM is basically on life support milking their consulting business and pretending Watson does stuff it doesn’t to further their consulting business.

IBM was unstoppable, then Microsoft came from nowhere.

Microsoft was unstoppable, then nonexistent Google appeared.

(yeah, microsoft/google/apple have vied for "current top money vaccum")

As a reminder, Microsoft is the largest company in the world and has a 25% larger marketcap than Google.

I find it funny that so many people think Microsoft was "stopped" by Google. They adapted and they are stronger now than in the 90s as a business.

Debeers is on its way out. They may come up with something to stay relevant, but they are getting desperate to come up with ever more sophisticated machines to detect man made diamonds from their mined blood diamonds.

IBM and Microsoft are still around, too. I don’t get your example.

Microsoft not only is still around, it has a 25% higher market cap than Google.

It will be stopped by millions of smaller stores being on a single platform with the ability to get a product in 1hr to overnight within the same metro area. The challenge is to categorise the inventory at those millions - can start with thousands - of local stores. Once that happens, watch out amazon.

Seriously? Also, I think you mean Microsoft > Google > Bing (Microsoft) ?

ppl said the same thing about google in 2005. Same thing about Microsoft in the 80's and 90's. Both companies are doing better than ever. IBM is still around and is still huge.