A court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice’s case against Google over its alleged monopoly in the search market has revealed a few notable tidbits about the state of the search market competition, including the inner workings, revenue, and, in some cases, exit prices of would-be Google competitors, like DuckDuckGo and Neeva, the latter … Read more
Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google’s years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people. By the end of the year, cookies will be gone in Chrome forever—sort of. No Google AI Search, I … Read more
When it comes to looking something up on the web, most of us default to Googling it—the search engine has become so dominant that it’s now a verb, in the same way that Photoshop is. But using Google for your searches comes with a privacy trade-off. Google’s business is, of course, based on advertising, and … Read more
Google’s antitrust trial revealed the multi-billion dollar tech company paid out a whopping total of $26.3 billion in 2021 to keep its status as the default search engine on phones and multiple browsers, Bloomberg Law reported Friday. The Justice Department argued that by spending an exorbitant amount of money to retain its default status, Google … Read more
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While Google’s search engine has for years been the default on Apple’s devices, newly unsealed court testimonies reveal that Apple held talks with both Microsoft and DuckDuckGo to use their search engines across Apple devices, and in Microsoft’s case even potentially buying Bing, The Washington Post and Bloomberg report. The potential of a Microsoft deal … Read more
boonstudio/Getty Pictures Home windows customers who wish to browse the net with higher anonymity and privateness can now take the DuckDuckGo browser for a spin. Launched late final week as a public beta, DuckDuckGo for Home windows joins its Mac counterpart in offering you with a bunch of options that emphasize privateness as you surf … Read more
Getty Photographs/pixdeluxe Although I do know I can do all the things I must with a GUI in Linux, I nonetheless decide to reap the benefits of the facility, flexibility, and effectivity of the terminal window. Due to that, I like so as to add a bit instrument known as ddgr into the combination. Ddgr … Read more