Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere

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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
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They should have invested in their potential, their search engines. It's getting shittier almost daily.

Makes you wonder if they just stopped paying they'd have 23 billion more and I wonder what they'd lose in market share. If it is less than 23 bil it makes sense to just not pay.

Good question, but I guess it's all speculative anyways

Bing seems a lot worse now than before the pandemic as well

It's become easier than ever to spam out websites and spam content. It's a plague on the web and I'm not sure what the cure is.