I think this would be a huge win for growing clout and usage of alternative search engines. Not sure if Google knows what it's asking for.
Now if Facebook follows suit, even so much better. It'd be a huge win for privacy.
Now if Facebook follows suit, even so much better. It'd be a huge win for privacy.
Would other search engines not be subject to the same rules? Not much detail in the article but if there's a rule that you have to pay to link to the news sites and you have to include them in results, I don't think many alternative search engines would want to participate either
If Google shut down for just a few days, competing engines would quickly gather click data, and would rapidly be able to close the gap.
Add that to the fact users will change their default search engines away during any Google shutdown, and very negative Google press, and you have a recipe for Google losing the entire market.