[kyruzic]

Each of those companies has a FOSS competitor that does not rely on advertising money yet still exists.

[dooglius]

There's a FOSS competitor to Google?

[abdullahkhalids]

In principle, yes

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy

[kyruzic]

Yes. There is plenty.

One company that does exactly the same things? No.

Companies that do part of what Google does? Absolutely, duckduckgo for search, countless email services to replace gmail, openstreetmaps to replace gmaps, the list goes on.