• rwhitisissle@lemy.lol
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    4 months ago

    Let’s not pretend like google does not have a monopoly on search engines, maps, and shortform video content. Also, their cloud ecosystem might be second behind AWS, but it’s still fucking enormous and makes them truckloads of money.

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      4 months ago

      As someone who routinely argues that Steam has a de facto monopoly… Google does not have a monopoly on search. Bing / DuckDuckGo works just fine. Especially now that Google’s completely fucked their own results.

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        4 months ago

        Google does not have a monopoly on search. Bing / DuckDuckGo works just fine.

        Around 82% of search engine requests are issued through Google. Bing around 10%. I don’t know if we just have differing definitions of “monopoly,” but Google is the default on all Android devices, almost every non-Microsoft browser, and probably on Apple products as well. And most users don’t know enough or care enough to ever change from that.

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          4 months ago

          Honestly I suspect Bing will eventually surpass Google. Its reached the point where its better than Google for web search

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        4 months ago

        Also, a huge chunk of shortform videos on YouTube are just reposted Tiktok videos, so Google doesn’t have that either

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        4 months ago

        Given that Amazon, Microsoft, and Google together only account for 64% of global cloud hosting, I’m going to say those numbers don’t add up. But you are right that Google is third behind the other two.

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          4 months ago

          Fair. I didn’t realize the others had expanded their portion of the market that much. Last time I was looking at reports “other” only had <1% of the market.