Re:Is Google's looming monopoly trial a watershed moment for...
by ethbr1 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:40AM
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On the other hand, MS is pushing Bing hard via Edge/Windows.
Google should know from Chrome's start that a lot of market share is user laziness, if you show up with a functionally equivalent product. Eventually someone clicks "Try X!"
MS' privileging of ChapGPT in Bing-on-Edge is a pretty genius shot.
August 2022: 3.34%
August 2023: 3.03%
Meanwhile Google has 92%: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
> their AI search is significantly better
Whether the product is the best in class or not doesn't have any relevance when it comes to judging a monopoly. At least I really hope we don't end up in a situation where courts start ruling based on speculation on the future of AI because good lord would that be a mess.
I actually wish the media would stop calling these "monopoly" trials, even though I understand why they do it. They're antitrust trials. Google does not need to have an overarching monopoly in order to be tried for antitrust violations.