A judge ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.

“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…”

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Google forces exclusive deals and its popularity means people optimize for it. Other search engines don’t have a chance when people expect Google.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      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?

        • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          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.