As NextCloud points out Microsoft, Google and Amazon are doing the same in cloud services. All three prevent, block and deter users from enjoying search choice as we explained before (tip: this post shows you a way to escape their rabbit holes). Let’s not forget that Microsoft, Google and Apple have built a multi-layer World Wide Wall of browsers, operating systems (OS) and devices to keep out competition in search. We respect your privacy and defend your right to see objective results. In contrast with Mojeek you are not tracked. Ways that are far less obvious than on social media. Done at scale, and through two surveillance capitalists Google and Microsoft, it leads to informational bubbles that manipulate your pathways in subtle ways. This is undermined through “personalisation” and “targetting”, using your personal data. We also think search objectivity is vital. It is one of the big reasons we have stayed completely independent at Mojeek. We think search diversity is really important. Is it healthy that European society, businesses and organisations use two US AI brains as a lens on web information? Consequently Google and Microsoft control more than 98% of the European consumer web search market between them. When you see search results and ads on those, the chances are that they are supplied by Microsoft. In reality is this is a top 3, since Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia are syndication partners of Bing. The top 6 so-called search engines in Europe are Google, Bing, Yandex, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia. Bing Through the Looking Glassįirst some credit is in order: Bing is doing a valuable and great job of challenging the damaging monopoly that is Google search, and probably a much better one than you think. Faces you may not recognise and some naughty hands that they play with. Bing, their search offering, has many faces and hands. Here we will discuss how Microsoft use similar and other tactics with Bing. Nextcloud have written about how Microsoft uses their tactics to push 365, OneDrive and Teams. We recommend you consider them as alternatives to Microsoft and Google cloud services. NextCloud Hub is a key part of that with NextCloud Files for file sync, sharing and storage and NextCloud Talk for communications. We use them ourselves along with other self-hosted tools. We are particularly keen to support the leaders of this coalition, Nextcloud, who have great products that compete with Microsoft. They do so in unseen ways and using tactics like bundling, embedding, defaults, and opaque partnering.
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Microsoft push, even impose, products like 365, OneDrive, Teams, Bing, and most notably Windows on users. Together we call on the EU and governments to support choice and competition for consumers, by taking action against Microsoft to level the playing field. This is why we stand together with other challengers to Microsoft in a “ Coalition for a Level Playing Field” a new group at launch of 26 European IT businesses and 4 NGOs/Industry Bodies. With that freedom healthy and fair competition flourishes, and we all benefit. Now antitrust is back in fashion, and with most eyes on Facebook and Google, Microsoft are getting away with similar but more subtle ways of suppressing choice and competition.Īt Mojeek we believe that consumers and businesses should have freedom to choose. The last big US antitrust case, started in 1998, saw Microsoft accused of using monopoly power to bully collaborators and squelch competitors.
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