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> ruled that the tech giant has illegally maintained a monopoly through the billions of dollars in annual payments it makes to partners

Wow. Are they serious? that’s illegal?

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Cutting the source off mid-sentence is disingenuous.

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Fine, I thought the context was obviously Google's search engine monopoly.

> ruled that the tech giant has illegally maintained a monopoly through the billions of dollars in annual payments it makes to partners to secure the default search engine position on popular web browsers and mobile phones

It's still a stretch by the judge, and this article is a good hint that the ruling may be weak: https://itif.org/publications/2024/08/23/six-weak-spots-judg...

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The same argument that they used against Microsoft 20 years ago is a "stretch?"

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Google search is about to be made irrelevant by AI, and yes I believe it is a stretch to compare Google's search "monopoly" to Microsoft's browser monopoly of yore.