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Re:'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growi... by hinkley on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:02PM (#22077296)
Every time I search for a product lately I have to work to find a non-Amazon result.

At some point soon I will (re-)learn the search bar syntax just so I can cull the damn Amazon results.

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Re:'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growi... by hinkley on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:31PM (#22078270)
And today is that day.

cats -site:example.com works on both DuckDuckGo and Google, except... Google Shopping doesn't give a shit about -site when there are sponsored links to be shown.

Search for, say, Anker, on google and -site:amazon.com removes amazon, -site:bestbuy.com removes Best Buy (nothing against Best Buy, it's just the first result I saw not including Amazon, so the easiest to check).

Flip over to Shopping and it's wall-to-wall Amazon.

So I have a new skill, but at the cost of knowing I'm screwed instead of not knowing. Fuck.

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