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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by dehrmann on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:24PM (#23478904)
The "one" part is out fault for not using Bing, but isn't "mediating content" between users and websites essentially the premise of a search engine?
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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by asdfman123 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:24PM (#23482301)
Lots of companies reached monopoly status because they were simply better than the competition.

The point of breaking up monopolies is not to make a moral statement about the company, but because we've found that monopolies are generally bad for society.

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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by parkovski on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:09PM (#23480211)
Is it really though? Bing has been consistently worse than Google over the years. Maybe our definition of vendor lock-in needs to change.

Honestly at this point it doesn't even matter how good Bing is - we've been unconsciously trained to work with Google's algorithm in particular and they just have a de facto monopoly on the mental process a person goes through to formulate a search. Everyone's workflow everywhere will be worse and take more time if they voluntarily stop using Google, that's not what I consider a fair competitive landscape.

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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by mod on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:51PM (#23480670)
So we think Google is doing a good job, but we also want to dictate to them how they do it?

Seems like a recipe to have a worse product.

The argument that they're so good at what they do, they've created a monopoly, I think is very fragile.

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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by lucasverra on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:39PM (#23480556)
I agree. Google perf is indeed better ...and still use Bing (via Ecosia) for 90% of request

https://www.ecosia.org/

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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by KineticLensman on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:18PM (#23479587)
The complaint is not that content is being mediated, but that it is one company or cartel that is doing the mediating.
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