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Most people can choose only phone company or cable company for internet (some people only get 1 or the other). There are LOTS of search engines to choose from
by skrowl 7y ago
Most people can choose only phone company or cable company for internet (some people only get 1 or the other).
There are LOTS of search engines to choose from that are freely available. DuckDuckGo is pretty great these days.
Microsoft is even is making a search engine now, I've heard! /s
- Retric 7y agoGoogle has a near monopoly on search which is unrelated to their competence serving adds. So, Google could theoretically be terrible at advertising and yet still make insane profits from it. Just as Comcast’s internal IT systems might be a mess. This is why monopolies tend to be less efficient over time, nothing is forcing efficient operations.
- iamaelephant 7y agoIn this analogy the "cable customer" would be the ad purchaser. I don't know enough about that industry to know if the analogy works, but just saying.
- thrownaway954 7y agoi shake my head every time i think of the sheer marketing power of the bing brand... Hey man, i googled that chick in marketing last night and found her facebook account. Really??? well i binged her and found her pornhub account. Bing... Find what you really are looking for.