• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I used to love Google, the company, the search, the tech. But god damn if in the last 5 years it hasn’t become the most insane ad delivery tool in existence. Sometimes when I Google something it’s multiple full pages of ads before I actually see what I’m looking for. I switched to duckduckgo.

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      1 year ago

      DDG is essentially Bing though. The results aren’t the greatest. If Bing decides to ban a site, it’s banned on DDG.

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        1 year ago

        Seems like a Brave-esqe crypto platform:

        In addition to offering users a great search experience, Presearch is dedicated to creating significant value for marketers who would like to reach Presearch users. Advertisers can stake their PRE to a keyword, and whichever advertiser stakes the most tokens will have its ads displayed when a user searches on the term selected. Advertisers confer the most external value on PRE, so their success is very important to the ecosystem.

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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    According to a Bernstein analyst, that’s how much Google is paying Apple to keep its top spot, representing roughly 15% of the iPhone maker’s annual operating profits.

    Bernstein analysts are looking into Apple’s exposure to the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, originally reported by The Register.

    One of the major interest areas of the case is the payments it makes to Apple, classified under the Information Services Agreement (ISA).

    “We believe there is a possibility that federal courts [will] rule against Google and force it to terminate its search deal with Apple,” says the Bernstein report.

    Google’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai raised concerns over the bad optics of its Safari deal back in 2007.

    “I don’t think it is a good user experience nor the optics is great for us to be the only provider in the browser,” said Pichai in emails to co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin that were revealed in the case.


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    It’s not clear to me how browsers are supposed to make the list of search engines open and not bound to money. Especially for closed source stuff, how would it work? Should they have a git repo to which search engines can make pull requests to to be included in the list of search engines a user can choose from when first starting up Safari?

    If the list and process of getting on the list is closed, then one can always just assume that to get on the list, it requires money. But if that’s made illegal… yeah, not sure how this should be solved.