DanielLC comments on How much was creating Google worth? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 02 June 2013 06:09:13AM *  0 points [-]

rather than its counterfactual replacement some years later.

Why later? Perhaps its replacement would have been Yahoo!, created earlier.

Comment author: JonahSinick 02 June 2013 04:44:06PM 2 points [-]

Yes, it could have been Yahoo! — what I meant is "counterfactual replacement of the same quality." It would have taken a while for an existing search engine to reach the same level of quality.