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Google served ads for decades and no one ever jumped ship to another search engine.

• sschueller 10mo ago
  Because Google gave the best results for a long time.
  • PunchyHamster 10mo ago
    and now, when they are not, everyone else's results are also pretty terrible...
• bootsmann 10mo ago
  They pay $30bn (more than OpenAIs lifetime revenue) each year to make sure noone does.
  • KeplerBoy 10mo ago
    What are you referring to?
    • rzerowan 10mo ago
      Search deals with mobile OEMs and apple(preferred engine in all mobile browsers) also paying off Mozilla for a start. Also Goog has had a first mover moat for a while before Duck came along.
      • KeplerBoy 10mo ago
        That got outlawed in Europe due to anti-trust lawsuits. I don't feel like it changed Google's market share here.