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minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoYahoo still exists. Somehow. Apparently the brand is extremely popular in Japan, Yahoo Japan is on the list of top 50 visited websites. IIRC the brand was bought by Verizon, and I have no idea if Yahoo even offers web search anymore.
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agoApparently Yahoo uses Microsoft Bing for their search backend.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoHow the hell are we down to two meaningful web engines and two meaningful search engines? There’s Firefox and everyone else, and everyone else uses Chrome. There’s Google and everyone else, and everyone else uses Bing.
minus-squareLka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoBecause complacency. That’s all I can think of.
minus-squareShareni@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoDon’t forget safari, the entirety of iOS userbase is forced to use it
Yahoo still exists. Somehow. Apparently the brand is extremely popular in Japan, Yahoo Japan is on the list of top 50 visited websites. IIRC the brand was bought by Verizon, and I have no idea if Yahoo even offers web search anymore.
Apparently Yahoo uses Microsoft Bing for their search backend.
How the hell are we down to two meaningful web engines and two meaningful search engines?
There’s Firefox and everyone else, and everyone else uses Chrome.
There’s Google and everyone else, and everyone else uses Bing.
Because complacency. That’s all I can think of.
Don’t forget safari, the entirety of iOS userbase is forced to use it