Tag Archive for: Alternative Search Engines

“To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public”

“Recognition is growing worldwide that something big needs to be done about Big Tech, and fast.”

“The tech giant doesn’t have to be dismantled. Sharing its crown jewel might reshape the internet.”

… says Robert Epstein on bloomberg.com.

Read the full article at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/to-break-google-s-monopoly-on-search-make-its-index-public

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Wired: “It’s Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser”

“Ad trackers are out of control. Use a browser that reins them in”:
Wired presents several alternative browsers that put user privacy high on the list of their priorities.

Read the full article at wired.com:
https://www.wired.com/story/privacy-browsers-duckduckgo-ghostery-brave/

 

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„In most EU member countries, Google controls more than 90 percent of the search market.”

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„In most EU member countries, Google controls more than 90 percent of the search market. Sometimes, it controls much more”

Quelle: The Atlantic, 2015

Admittedly, the article “Europeans Use Google Way, Way More Than Americans Do” is a bit older. However, Robinson Meyer describes very well the situation of search engine use in Europe. Since 2015 this has not changed significantly.

„In most EU member countries, Google controls more than 90 percent of the search market. Sometimes, it controls much more: In Belgium, Germany, and Finland, it can claim more than 97 percent of all search engine use, according to a 2010 report by marketing research firm PTG Media.
By some measures, that’s some 30 percent more of the search market than Google controls in its home country. Estimates about Google market share in the United States put it between 67 and 75 percent of the search market.”

Full article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/europeans-use-google-way-way-more-than-americans-do/390612/

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