The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start

Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by tomComb on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:03PM (#37024073)

Google’s search monopoly is the easiest to escape: the moment I decide Bing or chatGPT are better I can switch with ease. And chatGPT is already replacing many Google searches.

So, it will take care of itself, and I think there are many other competition issues that need government intervention.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by AshamedCaptain on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:15PM (#37025509)

There's a network effect too in that by being the search monopoly gives Google several advantages:

1) They have free data about what most users want (i.e. click on)

2) Websites fight for being indexed by Google, but crawlers other than Google basically have to fight to access websites

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by skinkestek on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:02PM (#37026726)

Google is bigger than that:

IMO Chrome needs to be split out too as does Android.

[ Parent | on HN ]