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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by akrymski on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:00PM (#30821266)
Surely the only viable path to challenging Google is to own the web browser. Most users will use the default search engine.
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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by Gunax on Sunday March 27, 2022 @02:19PM (#30822607)
I would have thought this back in 2005, but eventually IE did fall. If users eventually dropped IE, why can't they also learn about Kagi or DDG or bing?
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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by throwaway1777 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:27PM (#30821534)
I don’t know about “only” path but not sure why this is downvoted as it’s a valid point of view.
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