The search engine or search engine 'duckduckgo' may not be as popular as Google.com. However, Google seems accused of using strange tactics to dominate its rivals.
Reported by the Independent, Saturday (07/21/2018), Google dominates almost all aspects of the user's online life. About 85 percent of smartphone users use Google's Android operating system.
Thus, users will inevitably end up using Google services or applications on their mobile devices. To the extent, Google was recently reportedly fined Rp. 72 trillion for monopolizing the Android OS.
In order to win its dominance in the digital era today, Google is also accused of using tactics to fight their competitors. DuckDuckGo, an internet privacy company whose products include search engines and browsers, reveals how Google has acted to assert its search dominance.
Examples include preventing the DuckCuckGo search engine from being added to Chrome on Android, while displaying the Chrome widget prominently on most Android versions.
Google is also considered to undermine DuckDuckGo with the domain duck.com, which is owned by the search engine giant. Automatically, this will direct visitors to google.com.
DuckDuckGo says that this "consistently confuses" its users. The duck.com domain was first registered in 1995, according to ICAAN, long before either Google or DuckDuckGo existed.
Reported by the Independent, Saturday (07/21/2018), Google dominates almost all aspects of the user's online life. About 85 percent of smartphone users use Google's Android operating system.
Thus, users will inevitably end up using Google services or applications on their mobile devices. To the extent, Google was recently reportedly fined Rp. 72 trillion for monopolizing the Android OS.
In order to win its dominance in the digital era today, Google is also accused of using tactics to fight their competitors. DuckDuckGo, an internet privacy company whose products include search engines and browsers, reveals how Google has acted to assert its search dominance.
Examples include preventing the DuckCuckGo search engine from being added to Chrome on Android, while displaying the Chrome widget prominently on most Android versions.
Google is also considered to undermine DuckDuckGo with the domain duck.com, which is owned by the search engine giant. Automatically, this will direct visitors to google.com.
DuckDuckGo says that this "consistently confuses" its users. The duck.com domain was first registered in 1995, according to ICAAN, long before either Google or DuckDuckGo existed.
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