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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by logicchains on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:19AM (#19338230)
>Google is, well google. I don't have to use their search engine if I don't want to.

When threads like this come up I always wonder how the engineers who worked on Bing must feel. I'd feel pretty disheartened if people had such a low opinion of my product that my competitor was considered a monopoly.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by fluffycat on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:31AM (#19338347)
I think Bing engineers laugh uncontrollably when people at HN claims DuckDuckGo is a search engine.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by ajhurliman on Friday March 08, 2019 @05:33PM (#19342860)
Seems like they're doing fine https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by lawrenceyan on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:15PM (#19343184)
No, the reason OP made that comment is because duckduckgo uses Bing by default to power its search. So duckduckgo is literally just Bing with a duck taped over it basically.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by ajhurliman on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @01:52PM (#19371005)
Oh, I didn't know, thanks for that
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by fluffycat on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:44AM (#19358190)
Exactly.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by Bhilai on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:52AM (#19339299)
Bing is as good as Google in many cases and is better than Google in some cases. IMO, thats no small feat. Bing is profitable too, unlike many other silicon valley companies so I don't think they feel disheartened.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by nerfhammer on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:40AM (#19339170)
They're not using the traditional definition of monopoly meaning lack of competition, now monopoly just means "too big".
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by tzumby on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:28AM (#19338326)
I read an article a while back about the team behind Bing. I think they had some of the best people working there and they must feel pretty proud. I think after the project picket up and they started managing them from top up most of them left. I tried looking for the article but can’t find it anymore
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