https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/bing-outage-shows-just-how-little-competition-google-search-really-has/
Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks.
Was wondering what the hell was going on this morning.
This is correct, we are independent and have been since all the way back in 2004, 8bn-page index and growing 😀
I just read your profile and can't believe you guys have been on lemmy for 3 years. What made you guys join before lemmy got popular?
people interested in alternative search tend to be in spaces that aren't your GAFAM big tech networks, we've been on masto since 2018 also
not to come off as overly dismissive of people elsewhere, but you also find that the quality of discourse and people's willingness to think about things are both considerably more elevated