Unfortunately, the highest searched thing on bing is ‘download Google chrome’. It’s the users who are such big fans of google.
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It’s also cyclical and deeply embedded in our society. It all starts with dominating the search space. Google chrome came along to cement Google’s stranglehold on the search space by having search and browser be one. Of their two big competitors at the time, google was paying money to one to be their default search provider. And any search not made in chrome on google directed users to download chrome. I don’t know how many people remember how google directed users to download chrome, but it was weakly implied you had to. It was an early example of a dark ux pattern. Then after google got a strong foothold in the browser market to dominate search more, they come up with the Chromebook and gun hard for every school student to receive a Chromebook. At the time a lot of us thought “oh good, now low income kids will have access to the internet while theyre in school, they can use that to learn things” and suddenly kids were growing up that chrome, the web browser, was the internet. And there were thousands of little steps over the last 16 years of google chrome that google has used to more and more deeply entrench themselves as all that is search, and all that is browse in the minds of users.
And I want to ask you this. When’s the last time you used their search product and didn’t have to struggle to find something useful in the top 10? Now the google front page is half properly labeled ads, 25% improperly labeled ads masquerading as results, 15% SEO bullshit that isn’t actually relevant or useful, just another advertiser showing their adds, and maybe one decent result. And what do you say when you want to do a web search? Even if you use bing or duck duck go or anything else, if you’re like most people, you probably say something like “let me google that”
We’ve gotten to a point of total apathy with google. Even if users are actively going to google for everything, its not even all that active from their perspective. They don’t know what else there is, and even if they do, their old habits are deeply set. They use google when theyre not thinking about it, which is most of the time, because that’s what’s already in their brains
I actually say ‘search that’ rather than ‘Google that’
I’ve started saying ‘search on duckduckgo’. But I’m a weirdo so.
Yea, I have lost all sympathy for people having our information stolen and for the growth of these mega corporations because nobody gives a shit until its too late. I encourage more of this stuff so people realize maybe they should have fought back decades ago or hell even now to prevent this stuff
I use mainly Andisearch and Mojeek. I can’t remember when I used Google or Bing the last time. Only sometimes with the Startpage or Whoogle front-end, or with DDG and MetaGer instead of Bing.
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Fun things. Though I’m not sure if anything like this is necessary even. Considering how much people tend to care about what these companies are doing and are willingly putting everything into their hands.
Now to be fair, I can’t really blame people that much. There is a lot to worry about and care about in this world, especially with the 247 news blasting us from every direction about disasters, wars, tensions, climate change etc. You have limited about of “caring” in you and gotta filter out the rest of the shit to keep your sanity. Tech companies are probably nor very high in the list. Which is why the big boys like governments and EU etc should do the heavy lifting but yeah, that has been going really well for the past 20 years.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice said Tuesday at the opening of the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century.
Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its favor by locking in its search engine as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices.
The Justice Department filed its antitrust lawsuit against Google nearly three years ago during the Trump administration, alleging that the company has used its internet search dominance to gain an unfair advantage against competitors.
Government lawyers say Google protects its franchise through a form of payola, shelling out billions of dollars annually to be the default search engine on the iPhone and on web browsers such as Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox.
“There are lots of way users access the web other than default search engines, and people use them all the time,’’ said attorney John Schmidtlein, a partner at the law firm Williams & Connolly which is representing Google.
The trial begins just a couple weeks after the 25th anniversary of the first investment in Google — a $100,000 check written by Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim that enabled Page and Sergey Brin to set up shop in a Silicon Valley garage.
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Monopoly power invariably leads to corruption, the law of the
junglemarket. Above all, the American market is corrupted to the core, that is where Google, at least until now, was able to act as it wanted.
