• db2@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    “love”

    jfc it’s a soulless faceless megacorp. This shit must have been published right out of Minitrue.

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    1 year ago

    Google has had monopoly power over both search and online ads for well over a decade, it’s way past time

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    1 year ago

    The article’s whole argument sounds like one of the weakest and most common corporate speak nonsense arguments that come up whenever there is a monopoly. It’s almost an admission of being a monopoly.

    That said, the “browsers providing Google search by default money” is probably the economic reason why we still have a Firefox web browser (the only real, fully functioning alternative to the webkit/blink browsers like Chrome). For a long time, it was a significant source of their income.

    Also, the alternatives to Google search need to step up their game. As a tech worker, Bing sucks for results. Yahoo does too since it gets results from Bing. DuckDuckGo isn’t bad. Anyone know better alternatives?

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      DuckDuckGo uses Bing as well, so I’m not sure why it’s better for you than Yahoo or bing.com. I personally am fine using DDG, as it provides the results I’m looking for and doesn’t track me for asking.

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        According to Wikipedia:

        DuckDuckGo’s results are a compilation of “over 400” sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google.

        That explains why the results are better than Bing for me.

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    That is the definition of a monopoly. The real question for the courts is if they are using that power in an anti-competitive way.

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    I didn’t read this opinion piece and jumped straight to the bottom to see who wrote it. I wasn’t surprised:

    Barbara Comstock is a former congresswoman and delegate from Virginia and a senior adviser at Baker Donelson. She also was a senior Justice Department official during the Bush administration.