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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by starspangled on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:04AM (#41795386)
In the early days, Google seemed like it promised to give us another Bell Labs or IBM Research, which would have made me think at least something good was coming from their anti competitive behavior.

It never eventuated though. Many of the interesting products and technologies that came out of it were either bought from or copying the actual innovators.

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by tlss on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:14AM (#41795436)
I’m sorry, but what are you talking about? A Nobel Chemistry prize was just awarded for the creation of AlphaFold.
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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by starspangled on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:53AM (#41795634)
I don't know what was unclear about what I wrote.

EDIT: AlphaFold was acquired by Google, in case anybody didn't realize that.

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