Re:EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants
by coldtea on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:30PM
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>I'm not sure splitting off the crawler would have the effect you want it to. Crawling is hard, but actually one of the easier parts of building a search engine. There are less complete, but still pretty impressive public crawls available already, like Common Crawl.
When they saw crawler they don't mean Googlebot or something.
They mean the whole thing you've described, the search engine as a backend.
What the law proposes is that other companies should be able to just buy the search engine service from a new company split from Google, of which Google which will just be just another client.
>I don't see a good way to split indexing out as a separate company from the rest of the search engine. It's tightly integrated with ranking.
The idea is to split the whole search part from Google. Let them have the ad business, Android and so on, and just rent the search from the spin-off company...
When they saw crawler they don't mean Googlebot or something.
They mean the whole thing you've described, the search engine as a backend.
What the law proposes is that other companies should be able to just buy the search engine service from a new company split from Google, of which Google which will just be just another client.
>I don't see a good way to split indexing out as a separate company from the rest of the search engine. It's tightly integrated with ranking.
The idea is to split the whole search part from Google. Let them have the ad business, Android and so on, and just rent the search from the spin-off company...