US makes case Google leveraged power and wealth to strangle competition, spending billions on deals with Apple and Samsung
US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins::US makes case Google leveraged power and wealth to strangle competition, spending billions on deals with Apple and Samsung
Really the search engine is what they're going after google for? not the whole web integrity thing thats pretty much a coup that would make google the ultimate gatekeepers of all browsers, browser addons and privacy in general?
If I was to guess I'd say it's the only way they can do anything meaningful. If the goal is to curb google's monopoly on the internet it would be neat to break it down and apparently search was a case that can be credibly pursued on antitrust grounds. Web integroty hasn't yet reached its intended scope, even if everyone with minimal knowledge know where it's going, "everyone sees the writing on the wall" is not a valid ground for legal persecution.
I’ve wondered if this and similar cases accounts for the dramatic decline in quality of Google search. It’s all but useless these days. I’d honestly rather have AltaVista back.
The amount of ad links I have to scroll through to get to my actual search is just awful these days. Almost feels like the entire first page is ads and then the second page is just sketchy fucking backwoods sites that may or may not bukkake your computer with viruses
Oh yeah. Not to mention that it's no longer possible to do literal searches, to exclude certain words from a search, to require certain words in a search.... Useless.
I know Dogpile is still around. It was my go-to back in the day. I may have to check it out.
Google also claims its industry dominance – the government alleges it has about a 90% share of the US search market – is the result of providing a better product than its competitors.
That's the crux of it. Over the last two decades Google HAS had a better product. But it pushes all it's own services through it...
More like Google had the better product a decade ago. It has pretty well been crap that was just being defaulted to for most of the last decade. Which is exactly why it is ripe for an antitrust claim.
DDG is my go-to, it's normally good enough. Google used to be better at showing searches so I'd still go check out then if I couldn't find something.
But since their ad strategy changed to favour paid suppliers and their servers are getting switched to handle heavier computing, Google is starting to suck now. So honestly its probable that you'll need to work harder to find what you're looking for regardless of which engine you use.
That’s what I use on personal machines most of the time, but I still have to use Google occasionally and it is usually easier when I have questions about what I’m trying to look up
Big tech companies and regulators are closely watching the trial, which could force a shift in how the industry is allowed to operate.
Its outcome could reshape how the public accesses and interacts with the internet, or embolden Google to pursue an even tighter grip on the market.
The trial is set to last 10 weeks, as the government makes its case that Google leveraged its market power and wealth to strangle competition.
The company’s longtime chief legal officer, Kent Walker, has argued that consumers can still freely use any rival search engines and that Google’s services represent only a fraction of the ways that people browse the internet.
Google also claims its industry dominance – the government alleges it has about a 90% share of the US search market – is the result of providing a better product than its competitors.
It is unclear what punitive measures Google would face if found guilty of violating antitrust law.
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This is what happens when a company gains so much power, inevitably they will smash as much rules they can for profit. Profit is the only god . There is no moral or ethics under Capitalism. Nothing new under the sun
Out of a handful of A.I search tools based on chat GPT the difference between those and Googles results are like night and day. Who wants to spend time on Googles run around searches while freely giving over data and privacy these days.