Just because Americans love Google doesn't make it a monopoly. Biden lawsuit goes too far.

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• YaDong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What type of google shill wrote this

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  • bestnerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The one who got paid. No way this isn’t some type of shill, any somewhat literate tech person knows Google has monopolized and now with WEI they need to be knocked down. I worked on the GCP team for 5 years before leaving and I’ll never stop being anti-google

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  • sadreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    PR firm orchastered shit post

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  • PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    She got voted out of her political position because she was too conservative for her district, now she’s an official shill.

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• db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “love”

  jfc it’s a soulless faceless megacorp. This shit must have been published right out of Minitrue.

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• ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google has had monopoly power over both search and online ads for well over a decade, it’s way past time

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• exohuman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The article’s whole argument sounds like one of the weakest and most common corporate speak nonsense arguments that come up whenever there is a monopoly. It’s almost an admission of being a monopoly.

  That said, the “bowsers providing Google search by default money” is probably the economic reason why we still have a Firefox web browser (the only real, fully functioning alternative to the webkit/blink browsers like Chrome). For a long time, it was a significant source of their income.

  Also, the alternatives to Google search need to step up their game. As a tech worker, Bing sucks for results. Yahoo does too since it gets results from Bing. DuckDuckGo isn’t bad. Anyone know better alternatives?

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  • BloodSlut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ecosia is also decent, respects privacy, and uses proceeds to plant trees

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    • exohuman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Never heard of that. I will try it.

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  • NotBadAndYou@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    DuckDuckGo uses Bing as well, so I’m not sure why it’s better for you than Yahoo or bing.com. I personally am fine using DDG, as it provides the results I’m looking for and doesn’t track me for asking.

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    • exohuman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      According to Wikipedia:

      DuckDuckGo’s results are a compilation of “over 400” sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google.

      That explains why the results are better than Bing for me.

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• geosoco@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Should be labeled as opinion piece, just to make it even more obvious.

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• TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That is the definition of a monopoly. The real question for the courts is if they are using that power in an anti-competitive way.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the definition of anti-competitive practices; not of a monopoly. They aren’t the only search engine to exist. They don’t have exclusive control of the market.

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    • StarServal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not saying your reply is wrong, but the FTC does define monopolistic practices differently for the purposes of antitrust cases.
      https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/single-firm-conduct/monopolization-defined

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• Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I didn’t read this opinion piece and jumped straight to the bottom to see who wrote it. I wasn’t surprised:

  Barbara Comstock is a former congresswoman and delegate from Virginia and a senior adviser at Baker Donelson. She also was a senior Justice Department official during the Bush administration.

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• daddyjones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No - being a monopoly makes it a monopoly…

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• neveraskedforthis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “We don’t have a monopoly! Just Google it!”

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• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A government is supposed to be paternalistic. Why have a government if it isn’t?

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