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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Relying on people's apathy is a business model with eras of success. Most people have never changed a setting other than dark mode, and even then that's probably your average superuser.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    you are actually onto something. When Neeva went under, they were a paid search engine, they made a post explain why. The hardest part was getting people to pay a monthly sub, but getting them to change the settings

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