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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by glenstein on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:20PM (#30729902)
Google has incentives to degrade the quality of search results for the benefit of its profitability, up to the extent that is able to without turning away too many users.

I think it's more like that rather than an either/or.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by not2b on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:12PM (#30730251)
They have competition: if we get to the point where Bing/DuckDuckGo results are clearly better, people will start moving, and that will hurt their revenue badly.
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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by skinnymuch on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:07PM (#30730572)
Yes and those results don’t have to be just better. They have to be clearly better as you stated. The likliehood of that happening any time soon is close to zero.

I personally use Bing for 95% of my searches and have done so since it launched. Or re-launched.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by bencollier49 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @03:59AM (#30732052)
I switched precisely because I found that the DuckDuckGo results were indeed better. This was a third attempt though - the first two times it wasn't quite good enough. It improved, and Google got worse.
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