• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    This is a genius move to keep you from Google search

    Seems more like a genius move to get slapped with another antitrust-like lawsuit.

    • sandwichsaregood@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      I mean the original lawsuit was for aggressively bundling Internet Explorer and kneecapping other browsers. Which sure sounds a lot like a minor variation on what they’ve been doing with Edge and Bing for a while now, without consequences. Antitrust enforcement is not something I have a lot of confidence in for the foreseeable future.

  • BangCrash@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    The single thing Google did right when they first came out was a clean UI with a search bar on an uncluttered page.

    At the time the competitors had search pages cluttered with ads and news. It was so bad you couldn’t think.

    If Microsoft makes their search nice to look at them it’s going to get many more users

  • seven_phone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    This is a search engine showing open evidence of skewing results away from true for their own motivations. Slightly comic when it is Microsoft doing it to Google but if they do this so blatantly how else are they more subtly redirecting our searches towards biased or even false results that benefit them and misinform the user.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    With Net Neutrality gone, these giant tech companies could start bidding to make ISPs make their search engine default and have the other competitors fail to load.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      36·
      4 months ago

      The stupidest thing about this whole entire thing about net neutrality.

      The entire reason the FCC was created was to prevent the committee from being governed by the government process to avoid corruption for the exact circumstances we’re seeing here

      Saying that the Supreme Court and the appeals court has any area of saying what the FCC is legally allowed to do is laughable, as the entire reason for the committee being isolated from the standard Executive Administrative branches was to prevent government overreach like they’re doing currently.

      This is 1,000% them saying hey you’re an isolated committee that we can’t touch but you’re not allowed to do the one thing that your committee is supposed to do

      Corruption all the way to the top. It’s the American way, ironically I think the slogan “drain the swamp” works for both parties, as it’s clear that the people that are in charge aren’t willing to actually uphold the commitment they’ve made to the people.

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          16·
          4 months ago

          Thank you for providing a perfect example. It’s manipulative or delusional to say that the fault of the country is exclusively one party. It’s how we got in this situation in the first place. The amount of partisanship that this country has is ridiculous, especially when the go-to response for anything going wrong is well look at the other side. The US as a whole needs to do better, nobody’s going to get anywhere if it’s just the blame game. Both sides can be at fault, blame is not unilaterally one way nor is it equal levels. I’m not downplaying either sides position, but I’m not going to ignore what’s happening in the country.

          Being said I’m not engaging further in this, I don’t want it to devolve into a political thread as its not the purpose of this, I was just making a one off comment on the irony of it all.

  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    4 months ago

    Remember when they proved that bing was just providing google search results?

    Like it straight up sent your search query to google search and fed back the results in the bing skin.

    Edit: i am uncertain that this is true, after a search i found this article from 2011

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12343597#:~:text="We noticed that URLs from,or the Bing Search toolbar.

    This is what i was referring to. I explicitly remember reading this story, either on bbc or somewhere else, back then but i didnt look into it any further at the time.

    I have had a quick look around (im in work) and there is a possibility that it was never proven. But i dont have a reliable source to show that at the moment. If anyone wants to fact check, be my guest. But please dont, as another poser did downvote my comment and post images of a google and bing search you did just now as evidence that my claim is false without looking into the validity of my claim.

    The link above is from 2011, as i said, and shows what i was claiming.