Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report

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• StormWalker@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Kagi Search” looks cool. The examples of searches look far superior to even that of google.

  But it’s $5 per month. (No adds) Or $8 for couples. Even so I think I will try it. The search results look really good.

  Has anyone here used Kagi Search?

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been using it for the last few months, and while it doesn’t offer as many “nice to have” features as Google (like automatically finding mask results need in where you are), the core functionality works great, and the lack of ads is refreshing.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But it’s $5 per month. (No adds)

    The price seems reasonable IMO. Search engines are expensive to run, and I’m not sure they’d even be breaking even at the moment.

    They have a “small web” search that searches through small sites like blogs, which I really like. Sometimes there’s small sites that have great info but aren’t ranked very high in Google due to all the SEO spam and Google’s preference for major sites.

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  • Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wanted to like Kagi, but their Brave fiasco turned me off of them for good

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been paying for it for a few months now, I like it. You do have to be a more deliberate in search results, especially if you’re looking for location specific info, but that’s how old Google was too anyway. The summerize site and fastGPT features can be pretty useful too.

    Just a silly example, I was playing skyrim and wanted a duplicate item so I could display it, put in “skyrim console command to spawn item” and it spit out the console command perfectly

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  • Zomg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use it now, and like it. Do you have any questions about it?

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• imaginepayingforred@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How does this affect or concern me?

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  • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    did somebody specifically ask you to look at this and comment? just wondering why are you asking such a weird question

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    • imaginepayingforred@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Didn’t know there were stipulations to me commenting here. My, my. What an extremely hospitable user you are to this new, welcoming website. User since last year.

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No one really knows yet.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This could affect you in several ways:

    Search Experience: If Google is broken up or forced to share data, you might notice changes in how search engines operate. Competitors like DuckDuckGo or Bing could become more competitive, offering better privacy, search results, or features, potentially giving you more choices.
    
    Privacy and Data: If Google is required to share data, there might be concerns about how your data is handled across different platforms. On the flip side, increased competition could lead to better privacy practices as companies vie for users.
    
    Technology and Services: Google’s services are deeply integrated into many products and platforms. A breakup could impact the availability, integration, or performance of these services, which might affect how you use technology in your daily life.
    
    Economic Impact: Google’s size and influence mean that any major changes could have broader economic impacts, potentially affecting industries related to technology, advertising, and beyond. This could indirectly influence job markets, investment trends, or even consumer prices.
    

    Overall, these changes could alter how you interact with the internet, your privacy, and the services you rely on daily.

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• ngwoo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Big tech needs far stricter regulations but I don’t think people would like the internet very much if Google was forced to sell off services like YouTube. Nobody else is offering unlimited free hosting, discoverability, promotion, and bandwidth for video content and nobody ever will again. If the chromium project was sold off to some other shitty tech company, do you really think they’d keep the open source ‘ungoogled’ version readily available for everyone? A Google breakup would just mean that other tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc get more powerful.

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