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Re:The world needs more search engines by david-gpu on Sunday December 01, 2019 @12:57PM (#21676755)
Say Alphabet and its myriad of ad-supported services, such as Youtube. Instead of serving first-party ads, they would need to serve third-party ads, or charge their users, or a combination of the two (e.g. freemium model).

The facebook conglomerate could similarly be broken into Instagram, Facebook, etc. Each would get a portion of their current ad business unit.

In terms of software, each baby Facebook could get a flexible royalty-free license to all the software currently owned by Facebook, and they would be free to derive from it to differentiate over time.

If there is a will, there is a way.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by DonHopkins on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:10PM (#21676833)
They should break Alphabet up into 26 different companies, each getting a different letter.
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Re:The world needs more search engines by type0 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @06:58PM (#21678682)
This is the best logical conclusion so far
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Re:The world needs more search engines by bagacrap on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:56PM (#21677139)
What does it mean to serve first party ads? The ads are (mostly) for third party products/companies. Newspapers also run ads for third party products. The only difference is that the ads/sales department at the NY Times is substantially less complex (and lucrative) than the same at Google.
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