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Anon thinks about Google (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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