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    A WEEK WITHOUT BIG TECH

    Sep 02, 2019 6 minutes
    By Team HWM

    LIFE WITHOUT GOOGLE SEARCH

    You know you have made it when the name of your company gets added into the Oxford dictionary as a verb. According to StatCounter, Google has a whopping 92.19% of the global search engine market share. Bing is a distant second with 2.61% and Yahoo is third with 1.85%. That’s how dominant Google is in the search engine market space. There’s no competition.

    However, concerns over privacy and Google’s business practices have left many wondering if it is really possible to ditch Google Search and use alternatives like Bing and Yahoo. Wonder no further, for I have braved the unknown and have used Yahoo, Bing, and DuckDuckGo exclusively for a week. This is my verdict.

    THE VERDICT

    It is after this little exercise that I realised how important and overlooked search engines are. For many of us, when we open our web browsers, we either launch our favourite sites or we start searching. The search engine is, therefore, our window to the Internet. Change your search engine, and

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