DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMicrosoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Googlewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square353fedilinkarrow-up11.32Karrow-down137cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlcybersecurity@lemmy.capebreton.socialhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
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minus-squareNaibofTabrlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoI mean, if it’s just a switch to Bing it’s not really any better.
minus-squareominouslemon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·1 year 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-down1·1 year agoWho’s monopoly are we talking about? If that’s the goal then Firefox + DuckDuckGo would be more sensible right?
minus-squareYoru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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-up1·1 year agoI think Ecosia pulls results from Bing if that’s any better? I use them occasionally but generally prefer DDG.
minus-squareYoru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI use StartPage but it’s incredibly slow.
minus-squareidotherock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year 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-squareDarorad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year ago100% but Microsoft and Google splitting 50 - 50 would be better than the current Google 90 - 9.9 - 0.1 it currently is.
minus-squareominouslemon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoOf course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point
minus-squareRanchOnPancakes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago I mean, if it’s just a switch to Bing it’s not really any better. Search wise? No. Competition wise? Yes. Google has too much power.
I mean, if it’s just a switch to Bing it’s not really any better.
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?
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.
100% but Microsoft and Google splitting 50 - 50 would be better than the current Google 90 - 9.9 - 0.1 it currently is.
Of course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point
Search wise? No. Competition wise? Yes.
Google has too much power.