• tal@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    Blocking other search engines will hurt Reddit, all else held equal. But not by that much. Google is seriously dominant in the search engine market.

    kagis

    Yeah.

    https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

    According to this, Google has 91.06% of the search engine market. So for Reddit, they’re talking about cutting themselves off from a little under 9% of people searching out there. Which…I mean, it isn’t insignificant, but it isn’t likely gonna hurt them all that badly.

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      4 months ago

      It’s also worth noting that the 9% they cut off was probably the group more inclined to already be using alternatives to Reddit anyways.