Posted on 10/24/2020 7:08:31 PM PDT by Libloather
If you were to launch Safari on your iPhone or iPad and type a search query into the address bar, there’s a very, very good chance that it will default to Google. Sure, some of you might have set it differently, but for many, Google is more or less the default, and it turns out that Google paid Apple billions to keep it that way.
While we have heard in the past that Google has paid Apple to keep it as the default search engine in the past, we now know how much they paid for it. This is according to figures from the US Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, where court documents have revealed that Google paid anywhere between $8 billion to $12 billion.
Google is currently facing a lawsuit by the Justice Department over alleged antitrust practices, and this payment to Apple is one such example. According to University of Miami law professor, John Newman, who was also a former Justice Department antitrust lawyer, “This isn’t classic collusion, where two rivals agree to raise prices and each benefits. It looks more like one monopolist agreeing with another company to split the monopoly rent.”
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I use it but who knows. It's on the internets.
Houston, we have a couple of anti-trust problems....
Yahoo: “Didn’t you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.”
Mine is DuckDuckGo. Works just fine. I don’t do google. They have the mark of the beast.
DuckDuckGo is my search engines on all my Apple devices.
I’m sure DuckDuckGo is fine for 99% of searches, but I’ll tell you, I just it put it to a little test, and I have to say, Google did slightly better. Here’s the deal... I’m currently in the market for a hard-to-find discontinued furniture item (to match a set I own). I’ve been on the fence about buying it because Google produces exactly 1 result of a seller who has the item in stock for sale (and that one seller wants a price that I’m not crazy about). Well, with you guys talking about DuckDuckGo, I just decided to give it a shot. Unfortunately results are all for out-of-stock sellers and it didn’t find the one seller who has it. Consolation: Microsoft’s Bing doesn’t find it either.
Never use Goober
I like Bing, probably not any less intrusive but nice interface
Easy to change the default search engine on an iPhone. Fo to Preferences, select Safari, then select the search engine you want.
You can still get 99% of the benefits by setting Duck-Duck-Go as your default and if it doesn't find anything go to google and search there.
That is what I do and is good almost all of the time.
Yahoo was an early competor with Google.
Click on Menu then Options then Search. Select it from the list.
Googling something positive on Trump or conservatives is near impossible on Google.
They always stack negative items first.
Likewise, trying to find negative things on Democrats brings up positives stories.
Yahoo was the industry leader by a country mile, once.
DuckDuckGo or startpage.
Startpage.
I use it, too.
I used to be everywhere in the first five pages of Google hits for our home business using good keywords, domain names and meta tags.
Then Google launched their “pay to play” scheme and unless you pony up thousands for a “top spot”, no one will find you.
I watch my stats with sorrow because at least 85% of people are using Google to search.
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