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Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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I will be honest, say there's a new law that says on every device, users have the initial choice to select between any search engine, they'll probably choose google anyways because most of these people have grown up that way.
Make a better alternative and people will come. Ddg is ok but it still is basically a reskinned Bing and Bing itself isn't that good. Other search engines aren't as polished yet either
I’m happy with Kagi. I feel like it is equal to Google in it’s prime.
Not many people want to (or can) shell out 10 $/month for a search engine. I'm not saying it's pointless, I'm simply saying that few people would do it.
That’s why I self-host SearXNG. And have enabled several other “underdog” search engines like Mojeek and Marginalia. On my devices I’m using Redirect Web for Safari to send any search request to Ecosia (configured in my Safaris) to my SearXNG instance. Works great for me!
Sam . Mine is hosted on my RPi. Not ideal, I know, but at least it strips out tracking bits from the upstream engines.