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What Google has is marketing and momentum... its the ubiquitous search engine.
by voidfunc 4y ago
What Google has is marketing and momentum... its the ubiquitous search engine.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoGoogle also funnels a lot of traffic to itself through Chrome's search bar, and Firefox does the same. Sure you can replace the search engine, but whatever you replace it with needs to have the same capabilities or the entire model falls apart. Meanwhile, alternative means of navigating the web (such as bookmarks) are made increasingly difficult to access, requiring multiple clicks. I don't mean to be conspiratorial, I'm sure there are good intentions behind this, the consequence however is effectively locking in Google as the default gateway for the Internet.