“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…”

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    5 months ago

    Google search is a monopoly? It is losing market share. They really should go after Chrome and its clones

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      5 months ago

      Just because it’s losing market share doesn’t mean it’s not a monopoly, let alone an illegal one.

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        5 months ago

        True I suppose

        I just don’t like how Chrome is the “standard”

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          Then you should also not like how Google has a history of making their sites, which are market leaders in many cases including search, perform worse on browsers other than Chrome. That is considered anti-competitive behavior.