[bko]

Google measures latency at microseconds.100 ms ≈ 0.2% fewer searches. Google tracks this very closely and invests a lot as that's the operational life blood of the company. You can make more money by simply making search easier.

To save "it's easy" and Google chooses to nuke their own products for... I don't know what, stick it the European regulators, strikes me as incorrect. It's because it's incredibly hard to navigate this arbitrary punative regulatory framework.

No one would use the other maps because other maps are worse. As much as euro regulators hem and haw about lack of competition, it's precisely these types of dictats that make Europe not have any viable competitors in tech.

[piyuv]

Google also makes money by making search worse.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

[cwillu]

> No one would use the other maps because other maps are worse.

Do you realize how many commercial driving apps are based around OSM data?