Google’s search monopoly is hurting the Internet generally speaking by stifling innovation and pushing normal users into it’s ecosystem by paying companies like Apple billions to make it the default search.

https://www.makeuseof.com/why-google-pays-apple-billions-of-dollars/

My grandmother has been using Google everyday for a decade on her iPhone and didn’t even know until I changed the default settings. We need competitors in this space to make the internet a better place and using any search engine that relies completely on Google’s SEO is perpetuating their market dominance. Hopefully, Google pulls a Reddit like move and makes it ridiculously expensive to access their search services, the way they’re currently experimenting with YT ad blocking.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/92181/youtube-to-disable-video-playback-for-accounts-caught-too-many-times-with-ad-blockers/index.html

Then competitors will have to move away from Google’s evil empire making life better for everyone.

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You know I've been using both DDG and google for years, google on my work computer and DDG at home. I too have found google is a little better, but the past few weeks at work I've have occasionally found the google results insufficient, so I've tried DDG on a whim and it's actually given me better results!