A federal judge has just ruled that Google is an illegal monopoly and has used its position to maintain control of its search engine's market dominance. Now what? Do the Courts have the guts to break up Google? Google violated antitrust law to keep a monopoly on search, federal judge rules (msn.com)
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From ArsTechnica:
All the possible ways to destroy Google’s monopoly in search | Ars Technica
Won't ever happen, not with the Supreme Court as currently configured. Particularly now that Altman is waiting in the wings to unleash SearchGPT or whatever they are going to call it. The real loser could be Apple and the BILLIONS Google pays it to be the search engine of choice...
My guess is that, just like Edge in Windows, Google and the OEMs will be forced to remove Google's default status on their various products so that the user can elect to use other search engines as their default. Sort of a slap-on-the-wrist approach, but probably one of the few realistic things that the court can order...
Wow. What would that even look like to break up google because of a search engine monopoly?