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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Let's not pretend like google does not have a monopoly on search engines, maps, and shortform video content. Also, their cloud ecosystem might be second behind AWS, but it's still fucking enormous and makes them truckloads of money.

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

Third. It goes AWS, with about 50% of the market, Azure with around 40%, and then GCP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Given that Amazon, Microsoft, and Google together only account for 64% of global cloud hosting, I'm going to say those numbers don't add up. But you are right that Google is third behind the other two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Fair. I didn't realize the others had expanded their portion of the market that much. Last time I was looking at reports "other" only had <1% of the market.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's actually 3rd. I think you're forgetting about how massive azure is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As someone who routinely argues that Steam has a de facto monopoly... Google does not have a monopoly on search. Bing / DuckDuckGo works just fine. Especially now that Google's completely fucked their own results.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Google does not have a monopoly on search. Bing / DuckDuckGo works just fine.

Around 82% of search engine requests are issued through Google. Bing around 10%. I don't know if we just have differing definitions of "monopoly," but Google is the default on all Android devices, almost every non-Microsoft browser, and probably on Apple products as well. And most users don't know enough or care enough to ever change from that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Honestly I suspect Bing will eventually surpass Google. Its reached the point where its better than Google for web search

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Also, a huge chunk of shortform videos on YouTube are just reposted Tiktok videos, so Google doesn't have that either