Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says

Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by saiya-jin on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:39PM (#32785245)

Oh boy do I feel special right now, since I hit 2nd page (or even 3rd etc) quite often since main search became quite a spam-infested over-seod crapfest few years ago for some types of search. Some first results are outright dodgy, often outranking ie official sites and I strongly suspect only malware awaits there.

Such a shame for basically one-trick pony who doesnt understand that staying relevant long term means that trick must be and remain a damn good proposition.

Its true I eventually give up and do ie duckduckgo and if that fails I try to refine searches even more (but this rarely works since I already start with it as default)

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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by seesaw on Friday September 09, 2022 @07:13PM (#32786005)

I switched to duckduckgo few years back, and most of my searches work. I still have to use g! once in a while. Web search is such an important function, I wish there was a community funded, Wikipedia like entity for search.

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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by kyleee on Friday September 09, 2022 @07:36PM (#32786160)

we're seeing a small rennaisance of search engines which is promising to me; brave with it's discussions and goggles, kagi, marginalia, million short, and i am sure others it makes me happy to see

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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by userbinator on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:36PM (#32786530)

I still remember, around a decade or two ago, going through page after page of results to look for the exact page I wanted, and somewhat often getting that result. Now, if I'm very lucky, I'll find that result; otherwise, I'll probably get a CAPTCHA-hellban instead.

It's very ironic that a search engine, which is supposed to be helpful precisely for the things that are hard to find, seems to actively sabotage your efforts at such deep searching.

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