Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.
No way any of my friends would pay 10 bucks a month for kagi, so yeah most people just don’t care enough or search enough to want to look into alternatives
Who uses google besides my grandma tho?
who do you think is using literally anything else other than tech people?
You’re exactly right. Given the circles we run in it’s easy to forget the rest of the world just doesn’t give a shit about any of this.
Obligatory relevant XKCD
No way any of my friends would pay 10 bucks a month for kagi, so yeah most people just don’t care enough or search enough to want to look into alternatives
I’m not a tech person, and I’m currently using a SearXNG instance
My non techie friends use ecosia or whatever.
You don’t have non- techie friends.
I do, they use ecosia
Non-techie people do not even know what that is, or what you’re talking about.
That’s not true tho. All the techies i know dont use ecosia and similar random search engines that they saw in some ad somewhere
The majority (>80%) of people who have an Internet connection.