Supposedly a deeply unprofitable one. Which is a huge chunk of why no real competition has surfaced.
It’s one thing to set up a proverbial store with prices so low you choke out the competition. It’s another thing to essentially pay your customers to come in, either by literally paying them or by providing a service that they pay below actual cost for.
It’s also different as there only a few privileged channels get to keep their content forever. A lot of channels can only keep it for 2 weeks or 2 months based on their status, and a lot of creators upload their content to youtube to keep it for longer
The only benefit I get from google over ecosia or duckduckgo is I can’t call a company or view their menu immediately from the search page after looking them up.
Hopefully the alternatives catch on to that and improve outside of the English speaking world. Using Brave has been a dream for me, the results are almost always better than Google.
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Supposedly a deeply unprofitable one. Which is a huge chunk of why no real competition has surfaced.
It’s one thing to set up a proverbial store with prices so low you choke out the competition. It’s another thing to essentially pay your customers to come in, either by literally paying them or by providing a service that they pay below actual cost for.
That’s probably why it’s getting enshittified so quickly.
And search
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Everything is replaceable if people want to. The problem is the inertia it takes to substitute it
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So is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s
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Twitch, but that comes with its own problems.
It’s also different as there only a few privileged channels get to keep their content forever. A lot of channels can only keep it for 2 weeks or 2 months based on their status, and a lot of creators upload their content to youtube to keep it for longer
The only benefit I get from google over ecosia or duckduckgo is I can’t call a company or view their menu immediately from the search page after looking them up.
I don’t leave in an English speaking country and sometimes the results are not ideal tbh
Hopefully the alternatives catch on to that and improve outside of the English speaking world. Using Brave has been a dream for me, the results are almost always better than Google.
Copilot/Bing Search might put a big dent in that in the future. People will just ask an AI instead of “googling”.