How does the displacement of 1990s search engines genuinely inform the turbulent market leadership in the early American automobile industry? It feels like we're drawing a very long bow to connect two such different eras.
The failure mode for AltaVista was all about digital speed and ease of switching, a completely different beast from the capital investment and supply chain challenges that faced early car makers like Ford.
Trying to say one 'informs' the other rather than just being a conceptual parallel is a weakest link in the argument, creating a huge blast radius of shaky assumptions.
For instance, the rapid digital innovation that killed off AltaVista was nothing like the physical infrastructure and labour issues involved in scaling up car production.
This sort of analogy just doesn't snap together in a way that truly explains anything.