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The End Of Google’s Dominance?
Forbes ^ | Gil Press

Posted on 11/10/2021 8:50:49 PM PST by aquila48

A new online search engine, you.com, launched its public beta today, aiming to take market share and search-related revenues from the dominant incumbent. Google has 86.64% of the search engine market, a position that generated $146.9 billion in 2020 advertising revenues. “Its kind of crazy that right now there is this one monopolistic monolith that decides what you read, what you consume, what you buy, and what you have no control over it,” says you.com CEO Richard Socher.

Socher and his co-founder Bryan McCann helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform at Salesforce. Now they want to free Web search from the advertising and SEO biases of current search technology and give users more control over their interaction with the internet. Their focus is on a new interface design and new user experience, transforming the familiar single vertical list into horizontal collections of relevant sources.

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1 posted on 11/10/2021 8:50:49 PM PST by aquila48
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To: aquila48
I have refused to use Google (the Evil Company) as a search engine for many years, however I still have to use YouTube a lot. I'll use Rumble, whenever I can, but the YouTube library is huge - with a lot of useful videos.
Too bad, I can't completely boycott the Evil Company.
2 posted on 11/10/2021 8:54:57 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: aquila48

Richard Socher donated to Cory Booker (D).


3 posted on 11/10/2021 8:58:15 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: El Cid

The dirty secret is that Google results utterly suck compared to as recently as 2012. They stopped calling themselves a search engine and started calling themselves a decision engine.
I constantly give up refining my search for something I know exists in frustration, and am actually getting better results from DuckDuckGo it even bing or yandex.

It’s not just that google is corrupt, it’s low quality.


4 posted on 11/10/2021 8:59:31 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: aquila48

Google and other search giants may try to give You.Com
the Murder Hornet Treatment; try to invade and destroy their format. Isn’t that what happened with Parler?

I know Parler is for dialog, not a search engine, but they ran into digital land mine after land mine about one year ago. I don’t know how it all looked at the end.


5 posted on 11/10/2021 9:03:55 PM PST by lee martell
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To: aquila48
"Socher and his co-founder Bryan McCann helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform at Salesforce."

Salesforce is even more woke than Google.

How is this an improvement?

Unless they are saying Google isn't work enough.

6 posted on 11/10/2021 9:10:11 PM PST by Brookhaven (The dystopian future is now!)
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To: DesertRhino
It’s not just that google is corrupt, it’s low quality.

That's good - I'm glad I haven't been missing anything due to my Google search engine boycott.
"Decision Engine" - Ha-Ha-Ha! That's hilarious. What a bunch of pretentious posers.
I use duckduckgo also.

7 posted on 11/10/2021 9:14:50 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: aquila48

I have been using Startpage and they admit that they use google, but I accept that and choose my results accordingly.

It is PRIVATE, which is important to me.


8 posted on 11/10/2021 9:23:31 PM PST by Maris Crane ( )
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To: Brookhaven

There are two ways to judge a search engine...

1. Whether they track your every movement and sell it, and...

2.whether they show you search results mostly from left leaning publications.

They claim they don’t do 1,as for two I haven’t used it enough to know.


9 posted on 11/10/2021 9:30:47 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: thegagline
#3: "Richard Socher donated to Cory Booker (D)."

I hate to be a spelling Nazi, but you misspelled Spartacus. Hope this helps!

10 posted on 11/10/2021 9:36:32 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: DesertRhino

Google search sucks. It’s only value lies in true technical research. Any Google search result that touches politics, culture, healthcare is not to be trusted.

I’ll give this search engine a shot.


11 posted on 11/10/2021 9:51:42 PM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: aquila48

I did an image search on you.com for “America inventors” and I got the same propaganda result that would have gotten on Google, no white men there at all. Try it yourself.

so far my verdict on you.com is FAIL.


12 posted on 11/10/2021 9:56:02 PM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: aquila48

Google has become pure propaganda.

Do a search on any recent, even tangentially political subject - and you get sent to fake news sources.


13 posted on 11/10/2021 10:02:50 PM PST by PGR88
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To: DesertRhino
I just tried 'you.com' and was pretty impressed. Another that I really like is 'iseek.com'.

FUN FACT: I owned the iseek.com domain for many years, starting in the earliest days of the Internet. I sold it for just enough to get my three sons through their undergrad degrees (when that $$ was much-needed!).

14 posted on 11/10/2021 10:10:42 PM PST by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: The Duke

Wow! That’s terrific and congratulations! (even if a bit late ;) )


15 posted on 11/10/2021 10:19:29 PM PST by LibertyWoman (Guard with jealous attention the public Liberty. Patrick Henry)
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To: WMarshal

I just checked duckduckgo - same thing. They probably all use Google results.

The gaslighting is inescapable.

In every type of ad, TV, movies blacks are everywhere - they are the smart ones, clean cut, and successful.

Whites especially white males (if you even see one) , are the new slow witted Stepin Fetchits.

The propaganda to make you believe this demented, offensive dekusion is more intense and pervasive than anything Goebbels could have dreamed up.

And the really enraging thing is that most of it is generated and paid for by self loathing WHITES. They are the number one enemy of the white race.


16 posted on 11/10/2021 10:34:29 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: El Cid

I hope so.

Their bloody stupid algorithm changes and even more destructive “pay to play ads” crap ruined my former talent of using keywords and metatags to keep us on top of search results.


17 posted on 11/10/2021 11:22:29 PM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: PGR88

Indeed. Their “autocomplete” search suggestions are supposedly based on popular searches by other users. But if you type in ‘Joe Biden dementia,’ does auto-complete happen? Do you get search suggestions for that? Oh, hell, no. Because no one ever runs that search? Uh-huh, yeah, right. Their mission is to run interference for the leftist establishment.


18 posted on 11/10/2021 11:42:32 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: aquila48

USE Duckduckgo.com for searches


19 posted on 11/10/2021 11:43:11 PM PST by TECTopcat
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To: aquila48

Einstein search in salesforce is no great shakes. It’s got basic data science stuff but nothing that is too exotic these days.


20 posted on 11/10/2021 11:59:11 PM PST by glorgau
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