Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoGoogle paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywherewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1512arrow-down14 cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1508arrow-down1external-linkGoogle paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywherewww.theverge.comTimely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square76fedilink cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
minus-squareWallEx@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down1·11 months agoThey should have invested in their potential, their search engines. It’s getting shittier almost daily.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agoBing seems a lot worse now than before the pandemic as well
minus-squaremadcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoIt’s become easier than ever to spam out websites and spam content. It’s a plague on the web and I’m not sure what the cure is.
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoMakes you wonder if they just stopped paying they’d have 23 billion more and I wonder what they’d lose in market share. If it is less than 23 bil it makes sense to just not pay.
minus-squareWallEx@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoGood question, but I guess it’s all speculative anyways
They should have invested in their potential, their search engines. It’s getting shittier almost daily.
Bing seems a lot worse now than before the pandemic as well
It’s become easier than ever to spam out websites and spam content. It’s a plague on the web and I’m not sure what the cure is.
Makes you wonder if they just stopped paying they’d have 23 billion more and I wonder what they’d lose in market share. If it is less than 23 bil it makes sense to just not pay.
Good question, but I guess it’s all speculative anyways