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> billions of dollars' worth of antitrust fines

Fair, but at their scale it might be worth it. I'm not going to pretend I have the quasi-omnipotence necessary to understand if it was the right tradeoff in the end. For instance, Uber would have never became the company it did (regardless of its current position in the world) if they didn't routinely expose themselves to litigation.

> been left in the dust by OpenAI's ChatGPT

Very bold claim. They could absolutely do the same but perhaps they see no commercial value in doing so.

> seen its core search product get steadily worse

By what metric? It certainly generates more revenue per load than ever before and has page loads still trending upwards.

Honestly sounds like you have an axe to grind and you're making indefensible claims in a play to make your point.