Google is the biggest and, arguably, the best out there. According to Lead Public Policy Manager at DuckDuckGo (a rival search engine), Aurélien Mähl, that's because of the company's scale — a market share of over 90%. "We are building our own index step by step, and we face a huge barrier in catching up, given Google's scale,” he told TechRadar. “It’s something that is simply not feasible given how the market is constructed, and intervention is necessary." Mähl argues that liberating Google’s search data would not only generate market growth but also improve accuracy for rare queries, given t
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