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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by cblconfederate on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:29PM (#29986148)
> Every day, millions of Americans use online services like Google Search, Maps and Gmail to find new information and get things done.

Can we talk about this instead? Whats up with not finding the things i search for. Either the internet has stopped having the useful info i was seeking or google couldn't find it. It would not be a great annoyance if it was easy to switch to bing. Google holds all the entry points to the internet for themselves

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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by pb7 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:32PM (#29986197)
Switching to Bing is a matter of going to bing.com or changing the default search engine in your browser, literally the easiest thing imaginable.
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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by dane-pgp on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:37PM (#29986284)
> literally the easiest thing imaginable.

Oh, I can imagine something even easier: getting annoyed at someone using "literally" that way. In fact it's so easy, it happens even if I don't want it to.

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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by shuntress on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:52PM (#29986492)
Self-hosted text-based pages with no SEO make up a significantly smaller percentage of the web than they used to.
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