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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere (www.theverge.com)
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[-] golli@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Personally i find $10 a month to be too expensive, but don't we all pay for search engines in a way? With Google you don't pay directly but with your information and by getting influenced in your behaviour (e.g. to buy something from someone who in return pays google for advertisement).

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Quite true

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