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by mtlynch 2553 days ago
>You're a very odd bird indeed if you think the vast majority of people want severely-biased search results, and for Google to unfairly leverage their search position to kill competition.

In the case of the embedded speed test that pops up on Google vs. Oookla, it's not as simple as it might seem.

Google owns the JS widget that performs the test, but the backend server is owned and maintained by M-Lab, a third-party consortium (of which Google is a member).

It's a pretty neat project. The code is all open-source and the raw data of the speed tests is all publicly available and licensed under Creative Commons No Rights Reserved Zero Waiver:

* https://www.measurementlab.net

* https://github.com/ndt-project/ndt

* https://viz.measurementlab.net/