Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
Even though the other search engines are complete crud in comparison?
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Not the good ones. You can find what you want on any search engine if you use it properly with the correct syntax.
Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
Google has gained it's monopoly through quality, not subversion. They've released quite a few quality applications for free.
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What, you mean Picasa?
Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
Also, Google isn't as obedient towards copyright as you might think. Google News, for example.
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They pay license fees and purchase plublication rights to publish stories. It's cheaper to do that than to face legal fees and court action because they failed to acknowledge copyright issues in the first place.
Like I said, don't get me wrong - Google is great. But a monopoly is how things turn nasty.
Also, I'd just like to add that just because Google doesn't distribute information about their users openly, it doesn't mean that they don't have that information. They know what search was made from any computer, when it was made and what links were clicked as a result of it.