They already kinda have by manipulating search results to fit their best interests.
Comment on Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Google is actively working to close off the internet.
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
DanglingFury@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The forest grows out, gets fat with wood and brush and stuff, then it all dies to a fire or whatever. Something new always rises, and I’m excited for the new growth on the Internet
mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Whispers: “they’re trying to build a prison…” DUN DUN DUN DUNDUNDUNDUN
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 1 year ago
[deleted]Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 year ago
They still need to cache them anyway when they’re crawling the pages.
It wasn’t a full backup like archive.org but a broken text only view
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
they made billions of profits last year. they are very far from loosing money.
Chozo@kbin.social 1 year ago
Thinking Google is "the internet" is probably part of the problem.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
100% this. Google is killing Google. We just need to embrace that death and start using and promoting better alternatives.
Octopus1348@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Ecoisa!
They just planted 200 million trees.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve heard of Ecosia, but I’ve never heard of how exactly their model works. It sounds to good to be true, so I’ve always written it off as bullshit.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kagi is nice
Amir@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Another paid service that has no reason not to enshittify