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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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Is there something about search engines, as opposed to other online services, that makes you expect them to be free?
I suppose there is. At least that is the bias I hold.