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Discussion on: Google alternatives?

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Gamerseo

Google is so popular that, unfortunately, there are no alternatives.

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Ingo Steinke

There is a German word, alternativlos, meaning without alternative, used by former chancellor Angela Merkel. She ruled Germany for 16 years and used to describe a new legislations as being without alternative. If I remember correctly, her quote was criticized even by linguists(?) philosophers(?) being nonsense as the notion of no-alternative contradicts the essential meaning of "alternative".

(Unfortunately I don't have a link to that discussion anymore.)

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Melvyn Sopacua

What does popularity have to do with anything? That could apply to Whatsapp, LinkedIn, Facebook. But not to Google services as they have no real footing in communities.

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