• @utopiah@lemmy.world
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    03 months ago

    Google was “cool” 2 decades ago… or before they combined both monetization (through ad) with power (through monopoly) they inexorably transformed EXACTLY to Microsoft the same way Facebook/Meta did the Google playbook.

    Those huge tech corporations are pulled by the market to follow the same, sadly successful, strategy playbook and keep no uniqueness.

    Google has been the new Microsoft for years already but through careful marketing consumers somehow believe they aren’t.

    • @coolmojo@lemmy.world
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      03 months ago

      When the leaked internal video came out about Google’s real vision, everyone said it is fake. It does not look that fake now.

    • @Malek061@lemmy.world
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      03 months ago

      Google is slipping. Duck duck go is a better search engine. There are better mail systems as well. Meta is done as well.

      • MrsDoyle
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        02 months ago

        Some of my non-techie friends were complaining about how rubbish Google search is now and I suggested Duck Duck Go. They couldn’t get past the name. I know it’s based on some childhood game in the US but it makes no sense to anyone here in the UK.