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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by ilrwbwrkhv on Monday August 05, 2024 @08:50PM (#41166916)
The big difference is that at that point of time Google search used to be really good but now Google search is really bad so if there is a chance for another competitor in the market, that time is now.
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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by ants_everywhere on Monday August 05, 2024 @10:04PM (#41167263)
Yeah Bing really isn't bad. And LLMs are basically search engines for most use cases.

I think Mozilla should just run an ad auction to choose the search engine. Bing/MS would pay to capture market share, and Google would pay to prevent Bing from gaining ground.

So let them fight it out.

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by ffgjgf1 on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @02:24AM (#41168287)
> I think Mozilla should just run an ad auction to choose the search engine

This is not exactly what’s happening? Google is just willing to pay more.

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by ants_everywhere on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @08:02AM (#41170019)
An exclusive deal is different from an auction.
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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by ffgjgf1 on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @02:22AM (#41168279)
IMHO that’s mainly because the modern open/public internet kind of sucks. The ratio of content to garbage is extremely bad
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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by firesteelrain on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @03:26AM (#41168580)
Maybe. I recall searching the heck out stuff from 2000-2004 for CompSci looking for solutions to homework problems in code. There were a lot of spam sites.
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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by ljm on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @05:15AM (#41169070)
Circular problem I think, considering a lot of the garbage is a product of SEO and exists solely to game Google’s increasingly poor ranking algorithm.
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