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 9 months ago
Google is actively working to close off the internet.
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
DanglingFury@lemmy.world 9 months 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 9 months ago
Whispers: “they’re trying to build a prison…” DUN DUN DUN DUNDUNDUNDUN
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 9 months ago
[deleted]Moonrise2473@feddit.it 9 months 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 9 months ago
they made billions of profits last year. they are very far from loosing money.
Chozo@kbin.social 9 months ago
Thinking Google is "the internet" is probably part of the problem.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
100% this. Google is killing Google. We just need to embrace that death and start using and promoting better alternatives.
Octopus1348@lemy.lol 9 months ago
Ecoisa!
They just planted 200 million trees.
dojan@lemmy.world 9 months 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 9 months ago
Kagi is nice
Amir@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Another paid service that has no reason not to enshittify