Consider the search engine Bing. Despite investing around
$100 billion in Bing, Microsoft failed to make a dent in
Google’s market share, in part because it would have
taken Bing 17 years to collect the same amount of user data
about website quality that Google collects in 13 months.
From the same article:
I’m tired of sifting through Google’s increasingly cluttered
and irrelevant search results, searching in vain for the
latest news and instead finding only Reddit posts.
I guess the synopsis is that Google created the largest ever silos of user and internet data and then used it all to curate the largest possible library of affiliate slop.
tim333 · 13h ago
I use Google over Bing. I actually kind of like Google and their original drive to make search better and organise the world's information. Bing's pitch seemed to be, hey we at Microsoft are a big pushy os monopoly and we want our cut of the search pie. Which never had me think - wow, I should switch.
WarOnPrivacy · 6h ago
Kagi pulls from Google and Bing and does what neither of them can do (despite their utterly massive budgets) - deliver affiliate free results.
And as a bonus, Kagi only delivers AI results when requested.
Kagi is what Google and Bing could be - if only they weren't controlled by people of questionable skill and low ethics.
gigel82 · 1d ago
That's overly optimistic. There are meager efforts to rein things in a little but at this point we're full on "regulatory capture" so I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if anything actually comes to pass.
All of Big Tech will become defense contractors. This will become their core business if they want to survive.
And as a bonus, Kagi only delivers AI results when requested.
Kagi is what Google and Bing could be - if only they weren't controlled by people of questionable skill and low ethics.