Google's AI deal with Reddit is having another benefit, giving the dominant search engine a major advantage in surfacing current results from the social media p

at least we have competitions

    • moe90@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      the thing is this is not monopoly and it much more like duopoly between Google and brave search. So, it is hard.

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Is one of the biggest companies on the planet still a thing!?

      🤔

    • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      You just sound stuck up when you say that. Like “is windows still a thing? I didn’t know because I use Linux. Don’t you?”

      Of course Google is still a thing, by far it’s still the largest search engine in use on the planet, so most people won’t notice it. If anything, this hurts all the not-Google users. Can you imagine if different sites started signing exclusivity deals with different search engines?

      • point5a@programming.devEnglish
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        4 months ago

        The last time I used Google, I searched for timer app, the result was blue light filter! No timer in the first 6 pages! The result was always irrelevant.