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SEOHost.net Principal Discusses DuckDuckGo's Allegations Against Google - Benzinga - Benzinga

Last updated Friday, January 21, 2022 03:00 ET , Source: NewsService

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"When you think of search engine optimization, search engine marketing, or advertising, Google is inevitably the company that comes to mind…This gives it an inordinate degree of influence."

ORLANDO, Fla. (PRWEB) January 21, 2022

Terry Cane, COO of global SSL service domain registration and SEO hosting provider SEOHost.net (https://www.seohost.net) has expressed concern over an accusation made by one of Google's competitors.

On January 5, 2022, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg expressed his belief to The Washington Post that Google is manipulating users into abandoning rival products through misleading notifications and subtle design tweaks. According to Weinberg, this has primarily been used to discourage users from switching search engines or installing browser extensions from rivals.

Weinberg further alleges that immediately following one update in August 2020, DuckDuckGo experienced a 10% drop in new user retention on Chrome.

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"For search engines like us that are trying to actively allow consumers to switch, [or] choose an alternative, they're making it unreasonably complicated to do so and confusing consumers," said Weinberg. "It's one of the most direct pieces of evidence we have seen about how Google's practices have...



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