GOOGLE HAS AN ILLEGAL MONOPOLY ON SEARCH, US JUDGE FINDS (Reuters) WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that Google violated antitrust law, spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly and become the world's default search engine - Kotaku In Action 2

GOOGLE HAS AN ILLEGAL MONOPOLY ON SEARCH, US JUDGE FINDS (Reuters) WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that Google violated antitrust law, spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly and become the world's default search engine (twitter.com)

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– Gizortnik 7 points 89 days ago +9 / -2

IIRC the idea is that Google's mechanisms of being able to prevent users from easily accessing other applications, and contracting with other IT companies to guarantee that they were default (in the way that Microsoft got fucked over with IE back in the day) was applied here.

I'm not a fan of anti-trust legislation; but Alphabet goes out of it's way to prevent users from knowing how to work around their systems.

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