• @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    11 year ago

    As someone who routinely argues that Steam has a de facto monopoly… Google does not have a monopoly on search. Bing / DuckDuckGo works just fine. Especially now that Google’s completely fucked their own results.

    • Icalasari
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      11 year ago

      Also, a huge chunk of shortform videos on YouTube are just reposted Tiktok videos, so Google doesn’t have that either

    • @rwhitisissle@lemy.lol
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      21 year ago

      Google does not have a monopoly on search. Bing / DuckDuckGo works just fine.

      Around 82% of search engine requests are issued through Google. Bing around 10%. I don’t know if we just have differing definitions of “monopoly,” but Google is the default on all Android devices, almost every non-Microsoft browser, and probably on Apple products as well. And most users don’t know enough or care enough to ever change from that.

      • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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        21 year ago

        Honestly I suspect Bing will eventually surpass Google. Its reached the point where its better than Google for web search