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> they call people calling out Google for their monopolistic behavior whining. Google's monopoly is not in AI, it's advertisement. When you accuse them of ridi
by bigyabai 9mo ago
> they call people calling out Google for their monopolistic behavior whining.
Google's monopoly is not in AI, it's advertisement. When you accuse them of ridiculous and unfounded crimes, you're diluting the chance of Google being held accountable. As someone that wants to see Google ripped apart by the FTC, we can't just lie and say everything Google does is criminal.
- 8note 9mo agothe monopoly here is on web indexing, isnt it?
- otterley 9mo agoNope. Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, and Kagi all have more-or-less complete indices. There's no moat around scraping the public Web.
- xnx 9mo agoDdg has a miniscule index, and that exists mainly just to say they have one.
- neodymiumphish 9mo agoI’m a Kagi user, but I understood this recent post by the Kagi team to mean that they do not index the web themselves and that it’s nearly impossible for them to do so. https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
- otterley 9mo agoMy mistake. Looks like they license it from others.
- millzlane 8mo agoTo me it seems like it's impossible because they can't reorder bing search results or mixed them with other results. Or by their own admission because Google doesn't have a search API anymore. Unless I'm misreading. It's basically "Bing or Google wont allow us to use their products how we want to." And "It will take us over 20 years and lots of money to gain market share." I'm paraphrasing here of course. But it doesn't seem impossible. I mean I don't think it's easy either. I also want to add that I don't want to live in a world with only one search engine.