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Given search is a near total monopoly, I think it's honestly miraculous that Google doesn't suck more than it does. I can count the examples of times where non
by benrutter 2y ago
Given search is a near total monopoly, I think it's honestly miraculous that Google doesn't suck more than it does.
I can count the examples of times where non-state ran monopolies benefit the consumer on zero hands.
- jasonvorhe 2y agoAt the current trajectory, I wouldn't count on Google "not sucking more" holding out for long.
- codingwagie 2y agoGoogle search is absolutely terrible. There's just no alternative, so there's no reasonable benchmark (until ChatGPT)
- chubot 2y agoBing is an alternative to Google Search, that took billions of dollars to build I used it, it's OK, not really any better overall. Slightly worse in some areas and slightly better in others The problem seems to be that the incentives set up by Google flooded the web with low quality information Also, some people probably LIKE some of the low quality information ... but I still think there was a fair amount of mismanagement
- elevatedastalt 2y agoBing was unironically fantastic at searching for adult content but they hobbled that through the years.
- Hnrobert42 2y agoYandex
- eastbound 2y agoThe memes were excellent promotion for Bing being the place where you find uncensored results. “Split-face” would immediately return the horrible accident (don’t Google it, really - and yes, pun intended), “Scientists” would actually return non-editorialized scientists… Microsoft could have been farther and marketed Google as the colourful kindergarten that you give your children access to, whereas journalists and researchers would use Bing. But they folded.
- pjmlp 2y agoTo this day Bing fails to find Microsoft Learn content, their own stuff!
- mrweasel 2y agoI use Bing everyday, via Ecosia. It's is amazing how far Bing has come. Overall I'd say that Bing is the better search engine today. The only consistent fail for me is when I forget the address of "The True Size Of" website (www.thetruesize.com), Bing refuses to find that URL, while it's the first result on Google. Other than that, Bing will find anything that Google does.
- righthand 2y agoThis is not remotely true, there are plenty of search engine options. There are just not any that are dogmatically infused into society. Stop saying “google it” and it won’t be so socially ingrained that laymen only use Google. Stop letting them monopolize mind share.
- akira2501 2y agoThere's always the possibility that it's worse than you know, perhaps all your information is being sold to North Korea, and we just haven't been made aware of it yet? It's a giant product with thousands of hands in it. Processing it the same way you process other consumer decisions is a mistake.
- GuB-42 2y ago> Given search is a near total monopoly It is not a monopoly where people don't have a choice. Bing and its derivatives exist, also Yandex and Baidu and several smaller players. Bing is installed by default on every Windows PC. Not only that but the EU is watching Google very closely for antitrust violations, like they did with Internet Explorer back in the days. Google cannot afford to suck too much or it won't last long. And there is not much lock-in when it comes to search engines.
- deskr 2y agoI'd bet they've done A/B testing to suck as hard as they possibly can to maximize the gain/loss ratio.