@thenewoil Sounds like companies taking specifically Google's search results and making them anonymous like #Startpage have been disqualified. Sharing other people's search results is just fine though... 🤔 Still, at least this gives smaller search engines that would never win an auction, like #DuckDuckGo a chance.
@Blort @thenewoil #Duckduckgo is just a MitM for #Microsoft. Variety is good but I'd rather see non- #MACFANGY search engines get exposure. Decent choices are being eliminated by the requirement that the search engine have a Playstore app. All 12 search engine choices will be from companies willing to support Google by enriching Playstore.
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