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submitted 3 months ago by gytrash@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

"WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies..."

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[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

Who do they have an exclusive deal with? Are there sites you can currently only search on Google? Or browsers or similar that require you to use Google?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

The biggest one these days is Reddit but there are also cases historically

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

Search engines other than Google seem to be able to index reddit just fine though. I thought the Reddit deal was about API access to make for easier AI training data, also I hadn't seen anything saying that such a deal would be exclusive to Google.

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