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Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit in US
By: jsmth321 Date: August 5, 2024, 2:13 pm
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"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."
The judge said: "Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one
to maintain its monopoly.”
Developing story so the article is short of details as of this
post.
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/business/google-loses-antitrust-lawsuit-doj/index.html
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Re: Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit in US
By: caretaker Date: August 6, 2024, 9:34 am
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I don't miss using Google as a search engine at all, having quit
it years ago in favour of duckduckgo. Duckduckgo was a little
thin in the early days, but it's been very good for a long long
time now.
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Re: Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit in US
By: jsmth321 Date: August 6, 2024, 3:45 pm
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[quote author=caretaker link=topic=536.msg12045#msg12045
date=1722954858]
I don't miss using Google as a search engine at all, having quit
it years ago in favour of duckduckgo. Duckduckgo was a little
thin in the early days, but it's been very good for a long long
time now.
[/quote]
I use a mix but using google less and less as it's gotten so
bad.
A key part of the case was Google’s exclusive deals with Apple
and other companies to make Google’s search engine the default
choice which has blocked out other companies and given google
basically a monopoly which the judge has deemed illegal.
Google will appeal so likely 5-10 years before we see the
outcome of this case.
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Re: Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit in US
By: Siouxie Date: August 6, 2024, 6:00 pm
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I quite like dogpile too.
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