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Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules (apnews.com)
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies..."

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Google forces exclusive deals and its popularity means people optimize for it. Other search engines don't have a chance when people expect Google.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Who do they have an exclusive deal with? Are there sites you can currently only search on Google? Or browsers or similar that require you to use Google?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The biggest one these days is Reddit but there are also cases historically

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Search engines other than Google seem to be able to index reddit just fine though. I thought the Reddit deal was about API access to make for easier AI training data, also I hadn't seen anything saying that such a deal would be exclusive to Google.

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