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0 pointsbigyabai2mo ago0 comments

> they call people calling out Google for their monopolistic behavior whining.

Google's monopoly is not in AI, it's advertisement. When you accuse them of ridiculous and unfounded crimes, you're diluting the chance of Google being held accountable. As someone that wants to see Google ripped apart by the FTC, we can't just lie and say everything Google does is criminal.

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8note2mo ago

the monopoly here is on web indexing, isnt it?

otterley2mo ago

Nope. Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, and Kagi all have more-or-less complete indices. There's no moat around scraping the public Web.

neodymiumphish2mo ago

I’m a Kagi user, but I understood this recent post by the Kagi team to mean that they do not index the web themselves and that it’s nearly impossible for them to do so.

https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search

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xnx2mo ago

Ddg has a miniscule index, and that exists mainly just to say they have one.

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