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We usually have to pay for utilities, no? If Google search were a utility what would my search bill look like?
by wayneftw 5y ago
We usually have to pay for utilities, no?
If Google search were a utility what would my search bill look like?
- frockington1 5y agoNot saying I agree with it but, per the article: "In lieu of a fee, Yost argues in the complaint, Google collects user data that is monetized primarily by selling targeted advertisements."
- asymptosis 5y agoThere already exist paid search services which you can compare Google to. I use infinitysearch and it costs US $5 per month. It's true that their coverage isn't as good as google, but around $1 per week feels very cheap. And the decreased coverage is at least partly compensated by being treated like a customer instead of a product.
- istjohn 5y agoInteresting, never heard of that before. If I can ask, why do you use Infinity Search over Duck Duck Go?
- asymptosis 5y agoI don't not use DDG. I also don't not use Google. I tend to mix it up depending on what sorts of results I'm after and how private the search should be. One thing I like about IS compared to DDG is that DDG is still funded by advertising. This means that people are still paying to bias the results I see. By paying money to a search engine which doesn't rely on advertising at all, I have more trust that IS are really vested in showing me the results that I think are best. (They don't always succeed, but I trust that it's not about the results being undermined by third parties, it's just that they are still fairly small.)