Comment on Google accused of rigging market to secure dominant search monopoly in biggest US antitrust trial for years

• dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair Google practically modernized the search engine. I sometimes miss the before before times instead of by SEO ranks

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  • hardaysknight@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sometimes?? God I miss it all the time

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• ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, but why now? If it was a problem, why didn’t they do something about it 15 years ago or so?

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  • jantin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because for the last 15 years or so the agencies responsible for figuring it out and enforcement were toothless, corrupt, incompetent or all three together.

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    • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well tjen, I think question remains, why now?

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      • jantin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        every now and then, even on this community, I see praises towards the new leader of FCC (IIRC) who’s taking a hard stance agains big tech and elsewhere (Doctorow’s blog IIRC again) about the wider “bidenomics” of going out against monopolies and trusts by empowering existing laws and agencies. Guess the answer is “because now there is an administration in power who at least pretends to care”.

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      • BobKerman3999@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        because now it’s in the hands of one party instead of the other one

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• seang96@spgrn.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox gets the majority of it’s funding from this though, depending on how the rule on this they could make Firefox lag behind without funding and make chromium even more of a monopoly.

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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Absolutely this. I rely on Firefox and this, in a weird twist of fate, could actually hurt Firefox and consolidate Google’s (Chrome) monopoly

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