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minus-square@RanchOnPancakeslinkEnglish10•10 months agoI mean on one hand, terrible behavior. On the other, good.
minus-squareNaibofTabrlinkfedilinkEnglish18•10 months agoI mean, if it’s just a switch to Bing it’s not really any better.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•10 months 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•10 months agoWho’s monopoly are we talking about? If that’s the goal then Firefox + DuckDuckGo would be more sensible right?
minus-square@DaroradlinkEnglish1•10 months 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]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months 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•10 months 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•10 months agoI use StartPage but it’s incredibly slow.
minus-squareidotherocklinkfedilinkEnglish0•10 months 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@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•10 months agoOf course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point
minus-square@RanchOnPancakeslinkEnglish2•10 months 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?
100% but Microsoft and Google splitting 50 - 50 would be better than the current Google 90 - 9.9 - 0.1 it currently is.
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.
Of course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point
Search wise? No. Competition wise? Yes.
Google has too much power.