On: Every Google result now looks like an ad

[verroq]

Well clearly they built it so they own it. So if you don’t like it, it’s their way or the highway!

[scalableUnicon → verroq]

> they built it

What exactly did they built? AFAIK, even search engines already existed when they entered the game(they just did it better). The fundamental protocols that makes the web work weren't invented by them. What made you think "they built the web"?

[basch → scalableUnicon]

I mean thats not entirely true. They build and maintain HTTP3 and Chrome (oversimplification, I know)

They do somewhat control the fundamental elements that make the web work. Blink/V8 is obviously more powerful than Webkit, Gecko, as far as the market is concerned.

[fgjhghjghjkghj → basch]

I didn't know that Chrome web browser is fundamental of web :D

[basch → fgjhghjghjkghj]

Blink powers Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi etc. The only competition with even a single digit of marketshare is Webkit and Gecko.

If Blink and Google both implement a feature it becomes a defacto web standard.

[rolph → verroq]

google did NOT build the web.

too bad you cant talk to Berners-lee and the original DARPA crew about this