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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by scyzoryk_xyz on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:59PM (#37027308)
Isn’t the whole point that they’re tightly intertwined? You pay to advertise in the relevant search results of your customers.
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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by huitzitziltzin on Sunday August 06, 2023 @06:09PM (#37027405)
That’s not the law, so it’s irrelevant to the legal issues.
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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by scyzoryk_xyz on Sunday August 06, 2023 @06:56PM (#37027804)
I don’t mean the law. I mean how the actual ad/search product actually works. As a Google customer I pay them to present my stuff the way I want it to my customers when they search for stuff about the things I sell. That’s the product, no?
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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by huitzitziltzin on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:47PM (#37028207)
That’s not relevant to the monopolization claim here though.
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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by HWR_14 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @09:25PM (#37028868)
On the contrary, antitrust law has a lot of rules about using dominance in one industry to prop up another.
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