> One that effectively compromises you and assures you can never take a real principled stance against your competition.
I don't understand this attitude. Is there any better search engine than Google today? No. If Firefox hardcoded Bing to the homepage, or some other such "principled stance", people would completely stop using them.
Principled stances work great for TV pundits and politicians, and in both cases because they don't care if they lie to you.
In the real world we deal with nuance and practical situations. Mozilla doesn't have to HATE or DESPISE or BAN Google, or whatever other verb implies strong enough principled stance. They can recognize them as the lead search engine, and do their part when they're in position to.
It seems in the public debate we want to reduce every situation to a pro-wrestling match.
> Is there any better search engine than Google today?
From time to time, Bing and DDG are better at searching web than Google. Not always, but the number of times I started reaching for an alternative search engine has increased.
For anything political (which is almost everything non-technical now, sadly) Google is a non-starter now because of how much they suppress or otherwise manipulate results.
I don't understand this attitude. Is there any better search engine than Google today? No. If Firefox hardcoded Bing to the homepage, or some other such "principled stance", people would completely stop using them.
Principled stances work great for TV pundits and politicians, and in both cases because they don't care if they lie to you.
In the real world we deal with nuance and practical situations. Mozilla doesn't have to HATE or DESPISE or BAN Google, or whatever other verb implies strong enough principled stance. They can recognize them as the lead search engine, and do their part when they're in position to.
It seems in the public debate we want to reduce every situation to a pro-wrestling match.