United States takes on Google in biggest tech monopoly trial of 21st century

[THX-1139]

Just thought this might be of interest to some here: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopoly-antitrust-trial-search-engine

[distantpluto]

"People don't use Google because they have to — they use it because they want to," Kent Walker, one of Google's top lawyers and its president of global affairs, wrote in an emailed statement. "It's easy to switch your default search engine — we're long past the era of dial-up internet and CD-ROMs."

It's not because they want to, it's because they're apathetic, they don't know you can change it or they just think Google is the internet. I can't see this bothering Google even if they lose. It raises awareness at least.

[Pentium4User]

"People don't use Google because they have to — they use it because they want to," Kent Walker, one of Google's top lawyers and its president of global affairs, wrote in an emailed statement. "It's easy to switch your default search engine — we're long past the era of dial-up internet and CD-ROMs."

It's not because they want to, it's because they're apathetic, they don't know you can change it or they just think Google is the internet. I can't see this bothering Google even if they lose. It raises awareness at least.

I agree, but there are a lot of people who don't WANT to change it, they feel comfortable with all that Google does.

[moonbat]

Unless the antitrust focus stops obsessing over the search engine and moves onto the defacto browser engine & web standards monopoly and Mozilla being controlled opposition - it won't affect Google in the least bit. As the lawyer said, switching to another search engine is trivial.

[back2themoon]

Yes, fixating on the search engine does sound like they are lagging behind at least 5-10 years already. I guess that's how massive trials and massively paid lawyers work.

So many interesting topics here today. On the forum for 2 hours at least...