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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by microtherion on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:00PM (#24841131)
Arguably, Google paying such sums is evidence that there IS competition in the search engine space. Otherwise, Google could just say "You know where to find Lycos or AltaVista if you prefer them".
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by username90 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:16PM (#24841930)
Google pay such sums since otherwise the other search engines would pay billions to be the default search engine. And if we make such transactions illegal Apple will make their own search engine and make that the default since there is too much money left on the table otherwise.
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by cblconfederate on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:46PM (#24841621)
google having so little competition means that phone companies are making a lot less than they would in a healthy market. There's nothing to compare to
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