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Because they believe it's in their financial interest to not have Apple's traffic go elsewhere. Even if they broke even on the deal, it starves the competition

• olliej 3y ago
  Which is why this is coming up in an antitrust trial. People do talk about how “Google is legitimately better than the competition”[1] while ignoring the competition that never happens because there’s no path to profitability due to googl’s entrenched position. [1] which isn’t even necessarily true anymore: Google’s search results are awful these days and have been for years, because Google’s no longer competing on search it’s competing on ads.
  • xvilka 3y ago
    > Google’s search results are awful these days. Absolutely agree. One of the reasons I switched to Kagi.
    • kiwijamo 3y ago
      Same here although I went to DDG.
  • wkat4242 3y ago
    It absolutely is. Even bing/ddg is better now. Though I find I use search very little now. If I just want to know something I don't Google it anymore, I just ask chatgpt. Because it will give me an actual answer instead of a long list of clickbait sites I have to sift through to find my answer. The only time search still makes sense to me is when I need to find an actual website which is actually not all that often.