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minus-squareominouslemon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·10 months agoI mean I see your point, but you cold also argue that anything that can weaken a monopoly is a good thing, in the grand scheme of things
minus-squareidotherock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·10 months agoWho’s monopoly are we talking about? If that’s the goal then Firefox + DuckDuckGo would be more sensible right?
minus-squareDarorad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months ago100% but Microsoft and Google splitting 50 - 50 would be better than the current Google 90 - 9.9 - 0.1 it currently is.
minus-squareYoru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoDuckDuckGo’s search results suck, is there another alternative I can use that gets its indexes from google? I don’t care about censorship
minus-squareidotherock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI think Ecosia pulls results from Bing if that’s any better? I use them occasionally but generally prefer DDG.
minus-squareYoru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI use StartPage but it’s incredibly slow.
minus-squareidotherock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoAh yeh, I tried StartPage for a while. IIRC the image results page wasn’t so great. Not many filter options and so on.
minus-squareominouslemon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoOf course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point
I mean I see your point, but you cold also argue that anything that can weaken a monopoly is a good thing, in the grand scheme of things
Who’s monopoly are we talking about? If that’s the goal then Firefox + DuckDuckGo would be more sensible right?
100% but Microsoft and Google splitting 50 - 50 would be better than the current Google 90 - 9.9 - 0.1 it currently is.
DuckDuckGo’s search results suck, is there another alternative I can use that gets its indexes from google? I don’t care about censorship
I think Ecosia pulls results from Bing if that’s any better? I use them occasionally but generally prefer DDG.
I use StartPage but it’s incredibly slow.
Ah yeh, I tried StartPage for a while. IIRC the image results page wasn’t so great. Not many filter options and so on.
Of course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point