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If google search were the best, a default agreement wouldn't be needed. See the case of the ghost of Altavista

• SllX 2y ago
  Nah, it was definitely head and shoulders above the rest for the majority of this agreement starting from the very first version of Safari Apple shipped. It’s only relatively recently that the answer to the question of “is Google the best search engine?” has begun to slip from a definite “yes” to a “maybe not”. Of the free search engines on the market though, I think it’s still head and shoulders above the rest, but by a smaller margin and it’s certainly not as good as Google circa 2012.