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Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge (arstechnica.com)

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Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge::Google's search dominance creates "vicious cycle," Satya Nadella testified.

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[–] rizoid@midwest.social 59 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Microsoft is hardly one to be involved in this. They're just as bad in different ways. But. As far as search goes, I think it's incredibly simple to change search engines but the problem is Google doesn't give users that choice up front when installing chrome but even if they did most people don't give a shit and will just use Google anyway.

[–] Pantoffel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There are really only two search engines. Its either Google or Bing. The others exist, but they use Google's and/or Bing's search results.

[–] avater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

since when uses ddg google or bing ?

[–] float@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google. It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.