Google will hold an auction for alternative search providers in the EU
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- Anonymous
- ajV
- 02 Aug 2019
No problem. Just installed Qwant browser with Qwant search engine. Mint browser is good also. Mozilla great. Opera also.
I'm quiting those "too big to fail" companies becouse of the greed.
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- Anonymous
- 39h
- 02 Aug 2019
This is stupid. How are they allowed to do this?
The only acceptable solution is a configurable option, and all providers can communicate to their users how they can put their the search engine into the phone.
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- Anonymous
- FT2
- 02 Aug 2019
RC255, 02 Aug 2019So basically the richest succeed. Bing, Yahoo and... Duckdu... moreno I will use 4chan and dug dug go because of Freeze Peach
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- Freeze Peach
- Dvq
- 02 Aug 2019
Spark, 02 Aug 2019Duck Duck Go :DNo
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- Samath N8 808 owner
- rJ{
- 02 Aug 2019
We have to admit that Google, Facebook and lately Microsoft, all these have become shameless companies.
They know the world doesn't want their spying, but they just reduce it to make it legally ok, then they get back to their crape after paying some billion $'s...
If you want to show us adverts, why not ask us directly the categories we're interested in, and why spy on our exact location and our SMS'es and Contacts and all??
And behind all this is USA, the big bully.
And they encourage kids not to bully others, what a contradiction.
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- Anonymous
- 7wm
- 02 Aug 2019
So the other search providers ends up getting to pay for Google's fines. Great
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- Sam
- 0Wh
- 02 Aug 2019
Making the auction per country and local language is insane. It's clearly designed to avoid global alternatives to Chrome. And, of course, make the competitors become crazy trying to calculate how much could worth pay per country. €€€$$$
I can't see that a fair manner anywhere. Perhaps, search providers should group up and avoid the auction. Then place a complain against the EU commission and wait to see what happen.
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- RC255
- 3a4
- 02 Aug 2019
So basically the richest succeed. Bing, Yahoo and... Duckduckgo?
The majority will likely stick with Google anyway.
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- Anonymous
- nDx
- 02 Aug 2019
It is sad, but I made a little test with some friends, and in the first 3 pages of each search engine, we found about 42% relevant results for Google, and somewhere around 30% for Bing. All others are jokes. If you have a more sophisticated search, relevance for others is 0%.
I agree that it would be good to have other strong and useful search engines, but reality says otherwise :(
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- Spark
- mA$
- 02 Aug 2019
Duck Duck Go :D