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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by xcdzvyn on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:26PM (#37511985)
Google does not have a monopoly on search engines. There is abundant competition in the search engine market: DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yandex, Brave, Yahoo.

Nobody uses Google because they have to, they use it because it is the best.

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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by lapcat on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:13PM (#37512654)
> There is abundant competition in the search engine market: DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yandex, Brave, Yahoo.

DuckDuckGo and Yahoo both use Bing's search index. (Which sucks whenever Bing randomly removes your website for no reason.)

Brave Search is a very recent addition, just within the past year or two.

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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by xnx on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:08PM (#37513361)
Many consider OpenAI, Amazon, and TikTok to all be competitors to Google Search.
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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by shmde on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:23PM (#37513591)
> Nobody uses Google because they have to, they use it because it is the best.

Oh yeah, you sure its not because its the default browser on Android ?

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Re:Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, no... by xcdzvyn on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:49PM (#37513922)
Internet Explorer's market share was 65% in 2009. In 2015, just before its slated deprecation to Edge, it was 19%. That isn't because it wasn't the default, it's because it wasn't good enough.

If Google Search, as the default search engine of Android, wasn't good enough, nobody would use it.

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