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South Korea Has Moved Away From GAFAM - Including Microsoft - Since the LLM Frenzy Started

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 08, 2024

This morning: Difficult to Tell How Many People in North Korea Use GNU/Linux

EARLIER this year we took note of Korean search trends.

In a nutshell: Bing went down, not up.

The main winner was a local company:

A Korean Military Personnel Carrier

Search Engine Market Share Republic Of Korea

We wrote about this back in May. Google has since then regained majority market share as measured by this surveyor, but Microsoft is still in the gutter.

There are meanwhile more and more press articles about the lack of a business model for LLMs. We put many of these in Daily Links. Search won't be replaced by LLMs but polluted by them. It is a lose-lose scenario. We have Microsoft to 'thank' for that. Microsoft, the spam & plagiarism giant. They call that "freeware". █