• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I have noticed google doing a bunch more monopoly stuff since they weren’t willing to pay the government not to be called a monopoly, I guess they aren’t afraid of being a

      monopoly anymore since they have been declared a monopoly hay did you know google was legally ruled a monopoly?

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      2 months ago

      Kagi seems very promising but it’s paid. Most people will never pay for a search engine.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, $15 a month for search is a bit difficult to swallow for me as well.

        I wonder if there is another business model, or alternatively a non-profit or foundation could start up a search engine.

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    3 months ago

    Despite what Google wants you to think, organic search is not the only way to get traffic. Fuck em. Time to disallow Googlebot in robots.txt and noindex your content.

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      2 months ago

      And also to explicitly feed garbage when the useragent is that of the googlebot. And while we are at it, do the same with a few other UAs too. You know which I mean.

      Of course, that may not be feasible for everyone, but I do know that my visitors are not coming from google.