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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by ehsankia on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:59AM (#27444374)
> When you search for "skyline berlin", you'll see images of berlin's skyline, before you see links to other image search sites.

What's next, should they also show Bing and DuckDuckGo search results when you search for an arbitrary query too?

The goal of Google isn't to link you to websites, it's to get you to your information as quickly as possible. Said information could be a website, just as it can be an image, a flight or a single sentence pulled into an Answer Box.

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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by ehsankia on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:54PM (#27450217)
Their motto is making the world's information accessible, not making the world's website accessible.
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