Best search engines for life after Google
More than nine in 10 web searches in Australia are typed into a Google search bar. Whether on a smartphone, laptop, tablet or television, dictated to a smart speaker or requested from a car's connected dashboard, Google's search engine is omnipresent in modern gadgets. For many people, "google" has become more a verb than a brand. But the trillion-dollar tech giant is threatening to withdraw its search service from Australia, to protest against laws that would see it pay Australian news outlets for the stories it uses. And everyday internet users have started to ask just what that "wors...