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Those have strong user counts because they are free or significantly less expensive than alternatives. Search is free -- if they decided to charge anything for
by TAForObvReasons 8y ago
Those have strong user counts because they are free or significantly less expensive than alternatives. Search is free -- if they decided to charge anything for search, people would switch to yahoo or bing in a heartbeat. If they charged for chrome, that would be a red letter day for Firefox. Android would see a hard fork.
- fauigerzigerk 8y agoBut among all the free search engines people choose Google. That has to mean something. It's true after all that competitors are only a click away. And I'm saying this in spite of being less and less happy with Google's search results lately. It has become very difficult to prevent Google from generalising queries beyond all recognition.