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The last thing I want is for government to become even more involved with managing what information I receive or how I receive it. We need less of that, not more.

Also, please use competitors such as DuckDuckGo. It's not hard, and they're not bad. It's unconscionable to me that we would resort to government force before taking the obvious step of just not interacting with Google.

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That's how you can tell that the SEO people are lying about their motives. They don't want you to switch to DDG, they don't want 1000 search engines to bloom. They want Google to be the big gatekeeper with almost all of the traffic, and they want the government to use regulatory powers to force Google to drive that traffic to their sites.

That's their endgame. They want the EU or whoever to effectively force Google to send flight search traffic to Expedia. They don't get that from a competitive search market, they can only get it if Google remains dominant but becomes subject to a lot of bogus regulation.

Obligatory FYI: DuckDuckGo is pretty much Bing search. If you're trying to support newer competitors in the search engine space, try Qwant or YaCy.

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