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Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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I will be honest, say there's a new law that says on every device, users have the initial choice to select between any search engine, they'll probably choose google anyways because most of these people have grown up that way.
Make a better alternative and people will come. Ddg is ok but it still is basically a reskinned Bing and Bing itself isn't that good. Other search engines aren't as polished yet either
Luckily Google is working tirelessly on making their own search product worse every year.
It honestly might already be worse
You think it is bad now? Just wait for the new and enshittified Google Search 2026.
Dunno how long you've been online, but you should've seen searching before Google came along... it's still better now.
But, there was not much tracking back then...
Well, I just vaguely remember the times before dynamic search engines came along, when it was all just manually compiled lists of websites. It might be nice to have some of those again, not to fully replace dynamic search engines but as an addition to it. I guess those awesome... lists on GitHub for some programming topics are like it.