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Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says (www.businessinsider.com)
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Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says::Google shells out billions to be the default search engine on Apple's smartphones and on web browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, the DOJ said.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I defaulted to DDG now. It has been working just fine. Every now and then I can't find something and I will append a "!g" at the end of the search in DDG to get Google results.

I will use Yandex when searching for more copyright infringing content which works very well too.

That has me 100% covered. If I were to lose Google I would still be 98% covered.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The bang commands are such a great feature of DDG

[–] hightrix 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed completely. I’m noticing that I need to use !g less and less. It used to be a daily or twice daily thing, but these days it is more of a weekly or monthly usage.

Google has plenty of cash to live for a long time and an ad machine that prints money, but their days of dominance are numbered, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I recently switched back to Google default because I found myself appending !g almost reflex. Searching for things in French always returns unrelated things in English. Imo some user tracking is useful for tailoring search results, but obv Google seeks way too much data for that.

The results from Google are not that bad, but they got played at their own seo game, and the web got way bigger in the last ten years too, so more noise to filter