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minus-square@RanchOnPancakeslinkEnglish10•1 year agoI mean on one hand, terrible behavior. On the other, good.
minus-squareNaibofTabrlinkfedilinkEnglish18•1 year agoI mean, if it’s just a switch to Bing it’s not really any better.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoI mean I see your point, but you cold also argue that anything that can weaken a monopoly is a good thing, in the grand scheme of things
minus-squareidotherocklinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoWho’s monopoly are we talking about? If that’s the goal then Firefox + DuckDuckGo would be more sensible right?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoDuckDuckGo’s search results suck, is there another alternative I can use that gets its indexes from google? I don’t care about censorship
minus-squareidotherocklinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI think Ecosia pulls results from Bing if that’s any better? I use them occasionally but generally prefer DDG.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI use StartPage but it’s incredibly slow.
minus-squareidotherocklinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoAh yeh, I tried StartPage for a while. IIRC the image results page wasn’t so great. Not many filter options and so on.
minus-square@DaroradlinkEnglish1•1 year ago100% but Microsoft and Google splitting 50 - 50 would be better than the current Google 90 - 9.9 - 0.1 it currently is.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoOf course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point
minus-square@RanchOnPancakeslinkEnglish2•1 year ago I mean, if it’s just a switch to Bing it’s not really any better. Search wise? No. Competition wise? Yes. Google has too much power.
I mean on one hand, terrible behavior. On the other, good.
I mean, if it’s just a switch to Bing it’s not really any better.
I mean I see your point, but you cold also argue that anything that can weaken a monopoly is a good thing, in the grand scheme of things
Who’s monopoly are we talking about? If that’s the goal then Firefox + DuckDuckGo would be more sensible right?
DuckDuckGo’s search results suck, is there another alternative I can use that gets its indexes from google? I don’t care about censorship
I think Ecosia pulls results from Bing if that’s any better? I use them occasionally but generally prefer DDG.
I use StartPage but it’s incredibly slow.
Ah yeh, I tried StartPage for a while. IIRC the image results page wasn’t so great. Not many filter options and so on.
100% but Microsoft and Google splitting 50 - 50 would be better than the current Google 90 - 9.9 - 0.1 it currently is.
Of course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point
Search wise? No. Competition wise? Yes.
Google has too much power.