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Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by ska on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:53PM (#20751281)
> What exactly does this mean? Google ads can't show on Google search?

I think it means they couldn't both be google, any more.

[edit]: to be specific, they couldn't both be alphabet companies anymore, I worded that sloppily but following the quoted material.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by manfredo on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:01PM (#20751396)
One is Google. The other is some ads company owned by alphabet. They're separate companies, in the same vein that YouTube is not the same as Google.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech by 0xffff2 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:04PM (#20751442)
Presumably it means they also couldn't both by Alphabet anymore. For the law to be meaningful in any way, it would have to be written such that they have to be separate companies that do not share a common ancestor.
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