[steve1977]

To be fair, it’s not Google who is gatekeeping the Internet, but the “dumb masses” who are using Google.

Google is just gatekeeping Google.

[pineaux]

Do you have a god alternative? I am interested.

[bityard]

I've had some luck with excessive consumption of alcohol

[steve1977]

To what? Search engines or using the Internet in general?

You know there is this nice idea of hyperlinks. These don't have to come from Google. Just as an example, I use HN as a source of new sites to discover quite often.

[riffraff]

I've been using DDG for years, works just fine. My remaining usage of Google as a search engine for sport results, cause they have that nice widget to see matches/tables, and on mobile.