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I think it makes more sense to view android as a cheap way to negotiate it down to only 120B from a lot more money over the last decade. Search ads for rich con
by mattnewton 3y ago
I think it makes more sense to view android as a cheap way to negotiate it down to only 120B from a lot more money over the last decade. Search ads for rich consumers are insanely profitable, more profitable to google than android has ever been.
You and I would change our search engine but most iPhone users need an apple-maps-level mess up to go switch from the defaults (and even then that’s stabilized to a majority apple share now). Bing+apple could have been an existential threat to them in the mobile era; without android they would’ve had to pay whatever apple wanted.
- ask_b123 3y agoI wouldn't even change my search engine back. Google often sends me captchas while using a VPN, and sometimes somehow I end up stuck doing the captcha for 1+ min. So I've been using Bing for the last few weeks when that happens, and I haven't found the results worse than Google's.
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y agoHave you tried DuckDuckGo?
- ask_b123 3y agoI haven't, but I probably should. I just found it straightforward to type bing.com when blocked by Google and it was the first thing that came to mind. And after seeing I wasn't blocked it has become my go-to in the last few weeks; I've ended up using it about 10 times in the last month.
- shmde 3y ago> Google often sends me captchas while using a VPN. Even Yandex.com has started to send me captchas. Once I encounter a captcha page I quickly switch over to bing or ddg. No time for the captcha bullshit.
- guerrilla 3y agoNeither Brave Search nor DuckDuckGo do this and both have better results than Google at this point.
- ryder9 3y ago[dead]
- khimaros 3y agothis was what caused me to stop using Google as my default search engine as well.