US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'.
US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'.
"Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly," said a federal judge in the decision.
This is a big deal, but just a reminder that this is the District (trial) court, so the next step would be the Circuit Court of Appeals, followed by an appeal to the Supreme Court. There may be some intriguing injunctions that come out of this, but we're years away from a final disposition.
For the curious, this one came out of the DC Circuit, informally known to be the most technically and administratively savvy circuit, as it deals with a LOT of nitty gritty stuff coming out of Federal agencies.
FUCK YEAH!!! NOW BREAK THOSE BASTARDS UP!!!!
Okay, now loop in reddit's bullshit exclusivity agreement to search results and make it so no one can favor any one search engine crawler or demand payment to be shown in search. If your content is publicly accessible it should be fair game to all.
Most companies will want their site to show up on other search engines but they knew what they were doing, you only search for it on google to find results because google's own are an SEO ad riddled mess.
Finally, some good fucking news
we have so many freaking monopolies now a days. we really need to keep companies from owning so much. bring back the media limits and no company should be able to own multiple areas of healthcare and such.
Nice.. Now do it.. Break them
But there is an alternative, search engines that say that are independent but then come crashing down when Bing goes down, which belongs to another convicted yet still existing monopoly.
Will this mean that no one will be able to pay to be the default search, or just that Google will no longer be allowed?
Honestly, Google is still the best free search even though it isn't as good as it used to be... and if this ruling means that no one can pay to be the default then Google will still win based on name recognition and performance. Plus they will save money by not needing to give it to Apple.
The real loser here is Apple who is going to lose a fairly large revenue stream.
So now Mozilla can stop receiving their hush money, right?
Biggest "so far" they're far from the only.
Please let an outcome from this enable users to change the default Android search from Google search 🙏
Clone Teddy Roosevelt.
My point is people still used that VHSs. They just also bought DVDs. For most people, you didn't only use one. I think most people went through a period where they used both.