Like if you think about all the time wasted, that people are made to waste, just because google was like “if we made this work shittier people would be on google more,” all that shit adds up.
There’s only 42,076,800 minutes in 80 years, so if google makes every adult in the country waste even a minute of their time, that’s already multiple lifespans worth of “wasted time,” and I can promise you the actual number of wasted minutes in the ten plus years they’ve been shitfucking their own product is orders of magnitude greater than that
so like idk i guess what I’m saying is google owes us a few lives and we should start with its execs
You can (and probably should, Bing obviously excepted), but given how many of those are effectively just anonymous proxies for Google or Bing results, it doesn’t really solve the issue of the search monopoly intentionally degrading their search results.
Exactly, for anyone who’s interested:
Qwant = Bing
Ecosia = Google + Bing
Startpage = Google / Bing
Swisscow = Bing
metaGer = Bing
DuckDuckGo = combination of Yahoo, Google, Bing, and a tiny bit of their own indexing
Brave Search = mostly their own index, but a tiny bit of Bing
Yahoo = used to have their own indexer, but mostly Bing since 2009ish
There are only a few independent indexers, most notably Yandex, but also some tiny projects like vyntr, marginalia, wiby, and other small ones which only index a small fraction of the web.
Qwant and Ecosia are working on their own search index :)