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Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everything is replaceable if people want to. The problem is the inertia it takes to substitute it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

YouTube is really hard to replace without the money of a multi billion company.

Video is hard and attracting creators is even harder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, you can switch to a different search engine right now and the results will be perfectly fine. I use DDG exclusively.

What video platform can you switch to that has even remotely close to the amount of content as YouTube? (Pornhub doesn't count)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Twitch, but that comes with its own problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's also different as there only a few privileged channels get to keep their content forever. A lot of channels can only keep it for 2 weeks or 2 months based on their status, and a lot of creators upload their content to youtube to keep it for longer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only benefit I get from google over ecosia or duckduckgo is I can't call a company or view their menu immediately from the search page after looking them up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t leave in an English speaking country and sometimes the results are not ideal tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully the alternatives catch on to that and improve outside of the English speaking world. Using Brave has been a dream for me, the results are almost always better than Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

i personally refrain from brave, because A, those whole crypto shennenigans and what not and second, the browser is chromium based and i use firefox and i haven't bothered to put brave search yet