Posted on 08/05/2024 12:34:08 PM PDT by rdl6989
Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans get information online and to upend decades of dominance.
“After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” US District Judge Amit Mehta Mehta wrote in Monday’s opinion. “It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.”
The decision by the US District Court for the District of Columbia is a stunning rebuke of Google’s oldest and most important business. The company has spent tens of billions of dollars on exclusive contracts to secure a dominant position as the world’s default search provider on smartphones and web browsers.
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now let’s see how this shakes out for RUMBLE who has at least 2 antitrust suits against goog.
now do election interference
Thanks, I didnt see that.
...At the time the lawsuit was first filed, US antitrust officials also did not rule out the possibility of a Google breakup, warning that Google’s behavior could threaten future innovation or the rise of a Google successor.
Is this another horse's head in the bed...?
Is Deep State sending a m3ssag3 to anyone getting cold feet...?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Now, what is the remedy?
Usually these tech cases get decided as it becomes too late. Microsoft lost their browser case, but by the time it got around to mattering the market for browsers and OS had changed.
Now I find myself using AI search almost as often as search engine. And google AI isn’t one I use though they are pushing it at the top of their search results.
One remedy is to force them to divest from their advertising business. They can dominate search, but can no longer control the advertising. Which is of course where they make nearly all of their money. Force that into open competitive bidding from new comers. Not as easy as it sounds in reality since Google and the advertisers want to control when and where their ads show up.
But again it may be a non-issue. AI results are often better. Not perfect, but slightly less biased and rigged to protect various interests that Google management wants to protect. Google AI sucks, META AI sucks, Apple doesn’t even have AI they are licensing it out to OpenAI/ChatGPT. The tech world is about to change in the next several years.
META looks stupid right now, investing a fortune in those dumb goggles and realizing the are behind against a Chinese upstart TikTok and a bunch of smart LLM designers.
They can break it up like they did with the Phone Company. Maybe they can have searches starting with letters A-G go to one Baby Google, etc.
I was wondering something along those lines myself.
Who does this benefit?
I mean, is the court going to force google to split up like Bell Telephone?
Searching is so lousy.
I miss ask jeeves Magellan and the dozens others as well as The metas
I got a free Ask Jeeves umbrella and still use it.
My wife STILL gets her e-mail through Lycos! I used to use Alta Vista. Don’t forget AOL’s Web Crawler!
Yes yes yes!
You can still get a lycos email??
Used to watch the Google bots crawl the website
This is a big fn deal!
You Sir, are a paragon to admire and emulate.
Would you leave it to me in your will, please?
I forgot to mention, she wound up on Lycos because her beloved mailcity.com address got bought out. I still have a 25 year old iname.com account.
Browsers and other apps that have search engine boxes in them should use a randomizing algorithm for selecting from a group of search engines, and the algorithm should be the same for all applications and programmed independently from the search engine companies and the browser companies. Thus, the algorithm would select from a list of search engines,such as Bing and Google and Duck-Duck-Go and whatever else is available. No preferences whatsoever within the algorithm’s list and no search engine should get called more frequently than any other.
Google is a threat to America.
Bust them up!
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