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.

  • chepox@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.