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All the possible ways to destroy Google's monopoly in search

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None of this would be happening if Google search still worked.

Yeah, it is indicative of the monopoly and exclusion agreements that even if you made a search as good as google once was, you'd never get sufficient traffic to it.

Virtually no stock price impact so far, kinda weird if 65% of revenue could be wiped out by the decision.

Google search is still the best for most people

If anything Google will be more profitable now because any choice that Apple gives its users will inevitably end up with 99% of them choosing Google but now it costs them nothing

Most people do not change the defaults, if they are aware of a choice at all.

I think you're underestimating the power of defaults. Most people are just going to use whatever default the system/browser uses and not bother changing, most won't even know how to do it.

So I wonder about that.

I was thinking about it last night, and the Judge took issue specifically with Google paying to be the default.

What if Apple didn’t take a deal with anybody to be the default, but offered a search engine choice screen and charged anyone on it a commission on their ad revenue from Safari traffic?

What if Apple held an instant auction for every search and awarded the search work to the highest bidder each time? :)

Sounds like a good way to annoy users but hilarious.

Google's monopoly has stagnanted search progress just like Microsoft's IE monopoly stagnanted the web

OT: is this you? <https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservative...>

'fraid so

Nothing at all to fear.

I'm a huge fan of that. Welcome to HN.

Fascinating, I never look at usernames, let alone would think I'd recognize something like this.

Didn't we do this a few days ago, Ars?

Does everyone hate Google now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41176465

If google search were the best, a default agreement wouldn't be needed.

See the case of the ghost of Altavista

Nah, it was definitely head and shoulders above the rest for the majority of this agreement starting from the very first version of Safari Apple shipped. It’s only relatively recently that the answer to the question of “is Google the best search engine?” has begun to slip from a definite “yes” to a “maybe not”.

Of the free search engines on the market though, I think it’s still head and shoulders above the rest, but by a smaller margin and it’s certainly not as good as Google circa 2012.

I wonder if Google really has a monopoly everywhere. Or is that a case this is US centric. I know South Korea aren't using Google. Japan used to be Yahoo not sure if Google is making ways.

Are there other countries just dont rely on Google as much?

And on the subject, does any one know if there were ever a report on what people search most in categorised terms?

Give me 2 bitcoins and I will destroy Google's monopoly on search.

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