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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by w10-1 on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:52PM (#41165970)
The court is plain silly if it's concluding that multi-billion-dollar deals create resistance or diminishes incentives. If anything, it creates incentives by proving that another search engine could make billions from smartphone fees alone.
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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by eli on Monday August 05, 2024 @06:31PM (#41166212)
It’s an exclusive deal that prevents anyone else from offering a similar deal. Of course it reduces competition. The only question is whether it also violates the monopoly law.

I’d encourage you to read the decision, I just pulled two paragraphs from a pretty exhaustive document.

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by j_maffe on Monday August 05, 2024 @06:38PM (#41166262)
I highly encourage you to read about monopolies and their mechanisms. Competitors can be incentivized with a monopoly's profits all they want, the amount of money it'd take to enter the space is unfeasible.
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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by callalex on Monday August 05, 2024 @07:58PM (#41166703)
Then what is Google paying others for?
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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by ryeights on Monday August 05, 2024 @06:39PM (#41166266)
>another search engine could make billions from smartphone fees alone.

I’m not following… the search engine would be the one paying the billions.

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by Spivak on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @12:52PM (#41172670)
They're saying that if Google is willing to pay so much to be the default that there's positive ROI that another search engine could tap given the up-front investment to buy the spot.
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