Google Search Is Dying

Re:Google Search Is Dying by donnythecroc on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:44PM (#30352429)

Duckduckgo uses Bing and they also pay millions to be included.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by ColinHayhurst on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:08PM (#30352748)

We pay nothing so are not included. On the other hand we are happy to provide a one click search from our search engine or eight other search engines/services, currently from our web app [0]. One click for Google (if that's your thing), one click for Bing or Gigablast search engine results, one click for Brave and some of the many Bing and few Google syndicates - DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Startpage.

[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedo...

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by Angostura on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:18PM (#30352860)

Source on the ‘pays millions’?

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by giobox on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:35PM (#30356079)

Even if DuckDuckGo and Bing pay absolutely nothing, it's good leverage to make Google pay even more, and its already public knowledge Google pays a lot to remain the default search engine on iOS, to the tune of billions of dollars a year:

> https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...

> https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/926290942/google-paid-apple-b...

etc, etc. Given Google pay a lot more for this privilege today than in years past, this may well have been part of the strategy.

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