Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps
by Apofis on Thursday May 29, 2014 @05:50PM
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Precisely why we should be supporting companies like DuckDuckGo.
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Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps
by admax88q on Thursday May 29, 2014 @10:13PM
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DDG is supported by advertising. I don't see why they'd be immune to the same conflict of interests as Google.
Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps
by pjc50 on Friday May 30, 2014 @04:28AM
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What search engine isn't?
Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps
by ZoFreX on Friday May 30, 2014 @04:43AM
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One that you pay for.
Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps
by gone35 on Friday May 30, 2014 @10:08AM
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Or a non-profit search engine as a public good service --like Wikipedia, or the Internet Archive.
Obviously storage and networking costs would make it impossible today, but it might be feasible in the not-so-distant future. Either way, sooner or later people will realize the absurdity from a public-interest point of view of having "all the world's information" in the hands of a single corporation whose sole legal purpose is maximize its owners' profit --like it happened with other media in the past, like broadcast news.