So stoked. Both the breakup and the data remedy are essential to breaking this monopoly permanently. Death to Google
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Never gonna happen but that would be cool.
It's incredible how rapidly and how stark the drop in quality of Google searches have been.
2 years ago you stopped seeing anything relevant that wasn't a shopping link on the first page now with the spread of ai the top results are just dangerous misinformation.
My gf has celiac so we have to make sure everything we buy is totally gluten free. It's wild what kind of stuff you'd never think of has gluten in it. Like there's brands of cheese where the block is OK but you can't get the same cheese shredded because whatever anti-coagulant they use has gluten in it.
I googled "is brand name and product gluten free and the top ai generated answer on Google was "all allergens have to be clearly labeled so unless a product lists that it contains what it is gluten free" which is insanely dangerous misinformation.
And then sure enough half the pace d9wn is the a swer from the manufacturer saying the product is made in the same facility as wheat products so they can't guarantee aga8nst cross contamination.
It's not a never gonna happen situation- they've already been found guilty and the judge is working on the remedy. There is also an active fight over Harris keeping or firing Lina Khan as the FTC chair, and it's leaning towards her staying.
Yea wish I had your optimism. Hopefully the judgement isn't that they clearly violated dozens of laws over the course of decades and so they have to do 40 hours of community service.
That's exactly what happened with Microsoft in 2001 because Bush won
And that happened with the banks because Obama won which was actually way worse and left way more people in ruin; I wouldn't hold your breath. "because bush won" is a big too much credit to either side for being different. They are all financed by these groups and have their cabinets and advisory boards tied to these groups and google is one of the largest institutions in the state department and intelligence apparatuses. And even if anything does happen (if), I'm betting it's going to be a sleight of hand actively overseen by google executives and their advisory-counces-to-government
It would have been probably inadequate under Gore, but even after Bush's slap on the wrist, the Microsoft trial itself was incredibly effective at breaking Microsoft's total stranglehold on tech.