<story><title>The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where it isn’t</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-businesses-where-google-is-biggest-and-the-ones-where-it-isnt-11603293145</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>And nobody else comes close to having a competitive search product. I&amp;#x27;ve used DDG and Bing. Perhaps search is the utility lines&amp;#x2F;distribution and ads are the generation capacity, in a future disintermediation.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to have a nuanced discussion about antitrust in the search market when this case is coming up 2 weeks before the election, and is actually about politically pressuring Google to give the party in power favorable treatment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krtkush</author><text>I use DDG and more often than not it is satisfactory. About 80% of my searches are via DDG and for the rest I have to use !g[1].&lt;p&gt;I usually end up adding &amp;quot;reddit&amp;quot; to my search terms to avoid crap results on both Google and DDG.&lt;p&gt;[1]I was very curious about my DDG vs !g searches and ended up making an extension for FF which measures just that - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;ddg-stats&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;ddg-stats&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where it isn’t</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-businesses-where-google-is-biggest-and-the-ones-where-it-isnt-11603293145</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>And nobody else comes close to having a competitive search product. I&amp;#x27;ve used DDG and Bing. Perhaps search is the utility lines&amp;#x2F;distribution and ads are the generation capacity, in a future disintermediation.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to have a nuanced discussion about antitrust in the search market when this case is coming up 2 weeks before the election, and is actually about politically pressuring Google to give the party in power favorable treatment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x87678r</author><text>&amp;gt; And nobody else comes close to having a competitive search product. I&amp;#x27;ve used DDG and Bing.&lt;p&gt;This was certainly true 10 years ago, now I can&amp;#x27;t really tell the difference.</text></comment>