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1) Excluding Google from the Android/Chrome’s options is possible: just remove it from that list. 2) DuckDuckGo has a list of search providers using their !ban
by tareqak 7y ago
1) Excluding Google from the Android/Chrome’s options is possible: just remove it from that list.
2) DuckDuckGo has a list of search providers using their !bang query. It’s not exhaustive, but adding one to the list is a form submission to DuckDuckGo.
3) A break up is not necessary: the EU can charge Google increasing fines and significantly hamper Google’s European operations.
I think 1) and 2) together could work: the browser could have no list of search engines but could download a list of search engines from a known good URL when it run for the first time. The owners of the known good URL could be a consortium of search engine providers. There are definitely flaws with this approach, and it gives the user an extra choice, but giving the user this extra choice is the point.
- summerlight 7y ago1) "Technically" possible. Google won't do that though unless there's an external, super strong push. 2) DDG can do that since its main target is tech-savy users (at least for now). 3) EU can do that until it doesn't escalate into EU vs US trade dispute. 5B is probably okay since Google really didn't even pay their tax in EU appropriately, but 50B will be big enough for US to intervene.
- tareqak 7y agoI replied to the assertion that those things were not possible, not that they were probable.