Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case
by ThrowawayR2 on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:08AM
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Search naturally tends towards monopoly; nobody wants to navigate to half a dozen separate sites to and parse through the results of each individually to find what they want.
All of them would be ad supported too, thanks to the fact that we in the software industry have conditioned users to expect things for "free" and advertisers would also want to put the bulk of their ad dollars toward the most effective search engine to get the most bang for the buck, again reinforcing the trend toward monopoly.
The only alternative that comes to mind is to make search a government run public utility but, as I'm sure a number of you are thinking rather loudly right now, that comes with its own set of problems.
Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case
by dredmorbius on Sunday August 02, 2020 @01:42PM
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How does one address monopoly in similar circumstances?
Speaking as one who worked with many who'd cheared Microsoft over IBM, who myself once saw Google, and later Apple, as just deserts for Microsoft's own monopoly abuses, and presently relies principally on DDG for Web search, and acknowledges that it too relies heavily, though not exclusively, on Microsoft's Bing.
Providing a useful tech capacity without winner-take-all monopolies should be the goal. And result.