Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules

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.

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.

I use Kagi ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Which uses Bing as its primary index

Source? I don't see any mention of that here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

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.