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Anon thinks about Google
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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024
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As someone who routinely argues that Steam has a de facto monopoly... Google does not have a monopoly on search. Bing / DuckDuckGo works just fine. Especially now that Google's completely fucked their own results.
Around 82% of search engine requests are issued through Google. Bing around 10%. I don't know if we just have differing definitions of "monopoly," but Google is the default on all Android devices, almost every non-Microsoft browser, and probably on Apple products as well. And most users don't know enough or care enough to ever change from that.
Honestly I suspect Bing will eventually surpass Google. Its reached the point where its better than Google for web search
Also, a huge chunk of shortform videos on YouTube are just reposted Tiktok videos, so Google doesn't have that either