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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.

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.

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/