Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by msla on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:00PM (#15818973)

> If anti-trust is your concern, make Google smaller. Regulate what % of marketshare they are allowed to control.

How? Because this...

> Don't allow them to purchase any more competitors.

...doesn't achieve that end.

Google could have a thousand competitors and 99% of the marketshare, because just because a competitor exists doesn't compel, or even slightly persuade, anyone to use it.

I'm all for antitrust laws. I just don't see how the usual remedies would work here.

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by tedunangst on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:47PM (#15819359)

Obvious solution: quotas. If there are 10 billion searches per month, we limit each company to 25% of that. After Google performs 2.5 billion searches in one month, they have to shut down until the end of the month. Easy peasy. What could go wrong?

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