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Just wondering, why is it important to have a viable competitor to Google?

Are you worried about corporate shenanigans, or a single point of failure or something entirely else?



The danger of all monopolies. I'm not trying to troll or promote irrational fear, but I feel that the competition has been too weak.

The hegemony of a single organization which has a clearly stated philosophical viewpoint with a desire to index all information quite simply poses risks which others have described better than I can claim to. By diversifying those risks I hope we can reduce the potential problems.

I'm not saying that Microsoft is the antidote, just that I am glad to see competition. I hope there is more forthcoming.


>Just wondering, why is it important to have a viable competitor to Google?

From an economic standpoint, it's probably most important to search engine advertisers.


Try getting customer support with Adsense or Adwords (almost all of Google's money source). It'll suck or be non-existant. Oh...that is unless your in the 1% of top spenders.




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