Can we get from a world where Google is synonymous with search to a world where other search engines have a real chance to compete? The U.S. and state governments’ bipartisan antitrust suit, challenging the many ways that Google has maintained its search monopoly, offers an opportunity.

Can we get from a world where Google is synonymous with search to a world where other search engines have a real chance to compete? The U.S. and state governments’ bipartisan antitrust suit, challenging the many ways that Google has maintained its search monopoly, offers an opportunity.

  • Jhuskindle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Ngl i have been using webcrawler because all the blocked/promoted nonsense from Google made it virtually unusable and webcrawler has a few pages of nonsense but I’ve found everything I need.

  • kayazere@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Most interesting would be a forced sell of Android. Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution? Would we see more official distributions of Android without any Google software?

    • Sturgist@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution?

      No. Or, almost certainly no. If they were forced to sell Android, my guess would be that another tech giant, that makes most of their money from data harvesting, would be most likely to buy it. Meaning any spyware would remain, and just be pointed to different servers.

  • Nemean_lion@lemmy.caEnglish
    142·
    2 days ago

    I don’t know, but yahoo used to be the go to aswell until a better option came. I’ll tell you what though, it will be a cold day in hell when I use Bing.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Every engine out there other than Google already uses Bing. Bing actually has a usable privacy model; it’s one of the products IMO Microsoft actually got right.

      I do long for the days of Lycos, AltaVista, Hotbot, etc. though; the ad system was simpler then.

      Actually, what I really miss is the days of Archie, Veronica and Jughead, before flashing ads and marquees were even possible.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Duckduckgo is actually really good. Everyone ive shown it to has complained about the search results in the first few days then months later they say its so much better. Bangs are such a good feature.

  • Graves396@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    I mean I bump brave - add free, and protects your privacy far better than any alternative I know, including Chrome ( I am not a no-it-all in the web browser privacy department however)