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Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says::Google shells out billions to be the default search engine on Apple's smartphones and on web browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, the DOJ said.

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[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I find myself using duckduckgo and kagi more and more. All search engines suck, honestly, but the not-Google choices maybe suck a little less. Google results have gotten horrible, it's so obvious it's just serving up sponsored ad links, not actual information. I mean, that's been the case for a long time but they've really dialed up the suck.

[–] chepox@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I defaulted to DDG now. It has been working just fine. Every now and then I can't find something and I will append a "!g" at the end of the search in DDG to get Google results.

I will use Yandex when searching for more copyright infringing content which works very well too.

That has me 100% covered. If I were to lose Google I would still be 98% covered.

[–] Fascism_Chewer@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The bang commands are such a great feature of DDG

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