• Hexarei@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Their market dominance isn’t because of anticompetitive practices, it’s because of customer-friendly practices. People like it, so people use it.

    • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Majority also like Google. Like it or not, they still provide the best search engine.

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          3 months ago

          What’s a better alternative? Have tried all major ones except paid ones and I always return to Google. Maybe for basic stuff Duck Duck Go / Bing is fine, but once you start searching for local / non-English stuff, results were underwhelming.

          • karashta@lemm.ee
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            3 months ago

            https://searx.space/

            My current favorite search engine. Just pick one that’s running out of your country or close to it. Hope it works as well for you as it does for me.

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        3 months ago

        There are lots of articles about how they make their search results worse on purpose for more profit. They alter search queries on the server side to give results for a search which is more aligned with an advertising partner. They inject AI into search results which can be wildly wrong.