I could see a more privacy oriented engine like DuckDuckGo taking more of the market share. Either that or they lose US v. Google.

Is this question specifically about Google's search or just large search engines in general?

@Pykess I mean Google's search, which has a market share of 93% of all search

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it's already far less relevant than it was 10 years ago.

@WieDan absolutely. The verbatim results going away sucked the most for me. Sure, their market share has gone from 70 something % to 92% in the last decade but not sure how sustainable it is. I felt so frustrated today having to jump so many hoops to find basic relevant info about a - what should've been easy to find- topic

@WieDan imo Google has become more of a place people go to find information, which is why Google maximises relevance

Whereas

I find usefulness of Google (Or other engines) in finding a hub of links on a given thing.

The Internet has always been a library without a catalog

The fear is the Internet is growing into a series of interlinked walled gardens.

@firstuserhere Is that a bad thing? Because of echo chambers?