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Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company's rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government's landmark antitrust trial against Google's parent company, Alphabet. The Justice Department alleges Google has abused the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine to throttle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers, allegations that echo a similar case brought against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't care about either, just want better search back. Does anyone remember when you could search for a specific product or part and the first link was to the manufacturer? Now you have to sort through sponsored content, various retailers, link spam, paywalled articles, video reviews (usually made by bots), and social media posts to get to the manufacturers website.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it's clear Google search is broken. Even searching for things you know exist may not show up in the search results no matter how specific you are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Partially googles fault but mostly the internet changed because how Google worked.

I blame ads. Because you could make money by presenting a fake Website filled with ads and shit,we are here now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stick with DuckDuckGo, it stays as it is. Every time I go to Google I see they are messing with the experience, making it easier to end up on sponsored content and harder to just get what you need. Not so with DuckDuckGo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

While DDG uses Bing's results, I wonder how much the two will diverge in terms of results as MS incorporates more AI bullshit in their search, if that will creep into DDG's results as well?