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CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search (gizmodo.com)
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[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think they're necessarily so much the number of search engines that currently exist (there's already currently several) but rather that not enough people use the alternatives that Google had the monopoly. (Also helped by Google actively railroading users into its products and suppressing the competition)