Re:U.S. asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case
by brainwad on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:15AM
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If Google is prohibited from paying for default search engine status, because it is judged a monopoly, will that condemn us all to default Yahoo or Bing, like Firefox tried a few years ago? Google should at least be able to match the top bid of its competitors, so that device manufaturers / browser developers can make a pro-user choice (i.e. Google) without losing revenue.
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Re:U.S. asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case
by eejjjj82 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:53AM
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you mean .... will that condemn users to manually switch their default search engine to Google? if so, then maybe that's a good thing.
also, with Duck Duck Go (and I assume others) I think it's more than debatable that Google is the defacto "pro-user" choice
Re:U.S. asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case
by killingtime74 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:50AM
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You’re asking a question that will only be answered at the end of a long sequence of litigation by judge(s). That is if it is not settled first. Most likely we will never know.