at least we have competitions
This isn’t going to hurt Google’s antitrust cases at all… Noooo sir.
the thing is this is not monopoly and it much more like duopoly between Google and brave search. So, it is hard.
Brave search…? You’re joking right…?
it is bearable and no captcha for VPN users (unlike google search)
But it’s no where near the #2 spot. Brave search is incredibly niche.
Why is Brave allowed to index reddit and other engines aren’t? Just switched to them and am not interested in reddit search results.
OH, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were saying search itself is a duopoly between Google and Brave Search.
You’re saying searching Reddit is a duopoly between Google and Brave Search.
That’s my bad… but yeah, the article is just wrong anyways, Kagi also has access still (presumably through their deal with Google to use Google’s search results as part of their result set). I wonder if Brave has a similar deal … or their crawlers just haven’t been blocked yet … or they paid off Reddit.
EDIT: Also, I will say because Brave search has such a small market share that’s probably not going to help Google’s case much.
Well, it only gives a bigger reason for other search engines to index the competition.
Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.
!reddit search termIt still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing’s results. It’s that simple.
This has historically worked because Bing (from which DDG draws results) previously indexed Reddit. What indications do we have that it will work after this change? As I read the articles, I thought it wouldn’t work going forward.
Bangs don’t actually search w/ Duckduckgo, they just redirect your search to whatever search provided is configured for that bang. In this case, it just goes to reddit.com and uses its search function. They’re really handy when you definitely want results from a given service and don’t want to type out “site:service.com” or whatever.
it just goes to reddit.com and uses its search function.
oh god.
Is google still a thing!?
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?
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.
Is one of the biggest companies on the planet still a thing!?
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