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Mon Aug 5, 2024, 05:10 PM Aug 2024

Federal Judge: Google Is a Monopoly

Applause, applause.



Today on TAP: The Justice Department just won its case against Google.

BY DAVID DAYEN, LUKE GOLDSTEIN AUGUST 5, 2024

Judge Amit Mehta of the D.C. District Court ruled today that Google violated the Sherman Act by buying its way onto browsers and devices and making it nearly impossible to avoid its search engine.

“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Judge Mehta wrote in his 286-page ruling. “It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.”

The decision in the first major monopolization case in 25 years is a big win for the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, and reinforces the aggressive antitrust policies of the Biden administration. It shows that, in fact, law enforcers claiming that there was a new era of entrenchment and consolidation in the U.S. economy got it right.

The ruling has major implications for future developments in the tech industry, as the companies that dominated Web 2.0’s platform era are working to do the same thing with artificial intelligence. It also could affect subsequent cases being waged right now against Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/election-2024/2024/08/04/shapiro-school-vouchers-vice-president-kamala-harris-uaw/stories/202408040146
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Federal Judge: Google Is a Monopoly (Original Post) Passages Aug 2024 OP
This is YUUUGE! VMA131Marine Aug 2024 #1
So exciting. It is YUUUGE. Passages Aug 2024 #4
I go with DuckDuckGo. multigraincracker Aug 2024 #2
I love Bing. It's excellent with video lookup. jimfields33 Aug 2024 #3
k&r alwaysinasnit Aug 2024 #5
I've also noticed that it's turned to shite Warpy Aug 2024 #6

Warpy

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6. I've also noticed that it's turned to shite
Tue Aug 6, 2024, 03:26 PM
Aug 2024

because no carefully how you parse a search, if it's more than 2 years old, Google (or any privacy service that uses it) will not allow you to access it. And no, plowing through 40 pages of results will not get you there. Proper names are turned into street names, etc.

Google drove other search engines out of business because it delivered rapid and pretty specific results. Somebody monkeyed around with the algorithm about 3 years ago and it's been caca ever since.

It makes me long for the days of competing, clunky search engines with silly names. At least they weren't as myopic.

If the fucking thing still worked, people might be upset about this. Somehow, I doubt that will be the case.

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