What the future of search could look like as DOJ seeks to end Google's monopoly.
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Without search money for Google, there is no Android, no Chromebooks, Firefox/Thunderbird, much worse maps ... - and I am not sure we would get better search in along run.Isn't this comment chain referring to a government/publicly funded search engine? In this hypothetical world, nothing about Microsoft and Apple would change, just Google's role would be replaced by a different body more committed to providing service to citizens instead of businesses.
If anything, you'd probably have a bunch of Bing users migrated over, too.
And if Microsoft or Apple (or Steam, since we're at it) would use their size to abuse the market in that hypothetical world anyways, that means they already do so today and should be looked into by regulators separately from the Google stuff. Which, as it turns out, is happening too.
It looks like 'size' is the factor.. plus Microsoft shout a lot... a lot I know cannot find google, stuck on various phones, and other micro-laptops...Microsoft released Passport in 1999-2000. In 2001, the FTC filed a consent decree against Microsoft and instituted a requirement for a sprawling annual audit of all Microsoft's security and privacy practices. Microsoft was hobbled for years from furthering its work on passport and several related products as the FTC rode shotgun for a lot of their work.
Google, meanwhile, built basically the same authentication technology, free from any special review of their security and privacy practices. They ran ahead of Microsoft without being regulated, and then dropped their cutesy, probably-always-BS tagline of "don't be evil." Frankly, I've never trusted Google. Great product, worth the tradeoff for many use cases, but I've always questioned that company's practices. Long time coming, an we should break up the internet monopolists. Just because you hide your monopolistic, anti-competitive, and often anti-consumer features in code and analytics doesn't mean you're somehow free from judgment and censure under the law.
CounterpointThings like Project 2025 should be a big warning that getting the government into search would be a monumentally bad idea.
Neat to come back around this topic again!
While we're at it, is there any case on YouTube? It too effectively has no competition. Not sure if that legally makes them a monopoly for that market though.
No, monopolism isn't about market share alone, its about how you use that market share.
Lot of "I found lost item" stories start with airtag and by extension iPhones.Yeah, there's a lot of iPhones out there. There's a whole lot more devices running Chrome though.
It's called Reddit. Mods work for free, just like Wikipedia.Counterpoint
Are you saying having companies run something like Musk's Twitter or TikTok or Facebook is better?
Oh why can't we have something like Wikipedia but for social media, perhaps the only shining light of the 'big' things on the internet
A lot.Government funded results, what could go wrong
No, he doesn't. Once he has your money, he knows you are a mark and will treat you as such.Yep, it's time for Google to start investing in those "legal" gratuities. Why should Alito and Thomas be the only ones benefiting from billionaire buddies? And they're only two votes anyway.
Probably even better to invest some gratuities with Trump, just in case. He ALWAYS pays attention to money, and who gave it to him. Worked for the Egyptians...
Touché -- we'll always have some people like that in the midst of society, I suppose.I think we would. I think project 2025 mostly evolved outside of social media and was designed by power hungry people, not angry people.
If Google is unable to build quality mobile phones, laptops, etc without the money they get from a relative monopoly on search, this kind of just makes it worse -- as either it means competitors have no chance to challenge Google even on those other sectors, or Google's whole existence is propped up by malicious business practices.Without search money for Google, there is no Android, no Chromebooks, Firefox/Thunderbird, much worse maps ... - and I am not sure we would get better search in along run.
Searchwise.net always gives the results you want.Bring back search.com!