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US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After three years, a Washington, DC, judge will hear the Department of Justice’s potentially landmark antitrust case against Google. The department alleges Google struck anticompetitive deals with Apple and other companies for prime placement of its search engine, while Google contends its dominant market share is the result of a superior product. It’s the biggest tech antitrust trial since the US took on Microsoft in the 1990s: 10 weeks that could tip the balance of power online.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Surely this will go somewhere. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd like watch Microsoft making the same argument for Internet Explorer back in 2001.

After the antitrust case, history showed that IE dominance was not because it was a better product.

I love the euphemism the tech industry uses for monopoly: "network effect". Apple better watch out as well...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And Microsoft - shamelessly using Windows to crowbar edge in, to then further crowbar bong (a typo, but I'm leaving it 'cos its funny)