Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic”

Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by the_duke on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:04AM (#12733195)

With search, we already approaching that point.

No other search engine comes close to the quality of Google, at least for certain topics.

Outside of Russia, China, Japan and some other countries Google is the dominant search with a big lead.

And that is troubling indeed! Competition is good. And necessary for a healthy market.

It also means that Google has a huge amount of control over what information can be discovered.

What if MS decides Bing isn't worth their while anymore in 5 years? Yahoo will have dwindled away by then, leaving only Google. In Europe, Google has +90% everywhere (except Russia).

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by woliveirajr on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:06AM (#12733958)

And that's the point: quality. Altavista was a good search engine at it's time and now it's just memories. Because a "better" search engine appeared, giving results that were more useful.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by coldpie on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:21AM (#12734053)

If we continue down that road as you worry, at some point regulatory action might be appropriate. Google already seems to be breaking itself up via Alphabet, maybe they should just be cleaved entirely to avoid collusion and encourage competitors. On the other hand, the gov't avoided breaking up Microsoft back in the day, and this seems to have worked out OK as competitors sprung up into the gap the gov't wedged open anyway.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by antocv on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:47AM (#12733333)

Bing is still using Google as its backend.

www.yandex.com is a really good alternative, I found it even offers better search results for most topic I look at.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by Sindisil on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:04AM (#12733941)

Bing doesn't use Google as its back end ... I don't believe it ever did.

Yahoo did switch to using Bing as its back end, some years ago.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by jetpacktuxedo on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:11PM (#12735859)

Not that I agree with your parent comment that bing still uses google results on the backend, they did at least used to: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses...

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