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Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules

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863 points IdealeZahlen | 4 comments | 17 Apr 25 14:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.962s | source
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guywithahat ◴[17 Apr 25 18:29 UTC] No.43720505[source]▶
I've always been somewhat opposed to this, because there's already like 10 different search alternatives, and now AI is taking over, which will further weaken their grip.

Google is on top because they do the best job; I use Yandex primarily, but I switch back to google all the time for coding related questions. In terms of advertising, there's billions of views on Facebook/Instagram/X to get, in addition to all the other sites. I get they're a big player, but I worry we're just beating Google because they're down, not because it's good for the consumer.

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gregw134 ◴[17 Apr 25 18:49 UTC] No.43720706[source]▶
There's really only one alternative, Bing. Virtually all the other western search engines are using the Bing api, and just slightly modify the results.
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barkerja ◴[17 Apr 25 22:39 UTC] No.43722992[source]▶
I use Kagi ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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1. gregw134 ◴[18 Apr 25 01:14 UTC] No.43723961[source]▶
Which uses Bing as its primary index
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2. barkerja ◴[18 Apr 25 02:31 UTC] No.43724378[source]▶
Source? I don't see any mention of that here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
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3. gregw134 ◴[18 Apr 25 04:39 UTC] No.43725071[source]▶
Search "chili recipes" on bing. Now search kagi or any other alternative search engine. They all show the exact same recipes because they're using the bing API.
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4. barkerja ◴[30 Apr 25 20:01 UTC] No.43850012{3}[source]▶
Just gave this a try, and the results were very different for me.