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by mojuba 2395 days ago
"Losing our support" means a process, it doesn't mean everybody hates Google now, of course it's not the case.

> I always question the agenda of people promoting this.

My only agenda is my growing frustration with using Google Search and the lack of competition. Web pages can be excluded now for not using any of Google's plugins for example. I see how Search is increasingly becoming a tool for plain old profit maximization. It is generally up to Google to do whatever they desire with their own products, however the belief that Search is fair and "democratic" is lost now. No matter how technically competent, Google is lost for me as a company I can trust.

So, where is my fair, convenient and comprehensive search of information on the Web? There's none on the horizon. This is very worrying.

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As an anecdote, I installed Vivaldi on a new laptop recently. It uses Bing as the default search engine. Previously I would always change this to Google, but this time I thought, "Hah, Google has been shit for a while now, why not give Bing a try?"
Comprehensive means centralized. This provably cannot be fair. We can’t have everything. I use bing for difficult searches (google can only understand 1 or 2 words it seems) and yandex for image search. Not bad
Does it, though? The Internet is pretty "comprehensive"...