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Why should it? If you aren’t satisfied you can take your business elsewhere… wait never mind, there is no alternative.
by rubyfan 10mo ago
Why should it? If you aren’t satisfied you can take your business elsewhere… wait never mind, there is no alternative.
- nickff 10mo agoI agree that Google is benefiting from being the dominant player in a two-sided marketplace (which makes it harder to compete), but we can always choose not to use it, both as advertisers and as searchers. Google’s exploitation of its counter-parties has definitely caused me to use alternatives more and more often.
- tourmalinetaco 10mo agoGoogle is my third choice for searches. I try Ecosia first, but their indexing is garbage so I typically then go to Brave. If Brave doesn’t have it then I submit to the evil overlords at Google. Thankfully Brave indexing is pretty good so it‘s had a measurable impact on the amount of search I actually put through Google.
- rubyfan 10mo agoI use DDG on the consumer side but you, I and most people on HN are outliers, the other 90% don’t care enough to use something else yet.
- Workaccount2 10mo agoKagi is the correct answer, because you pay for the service you use.