Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
回帖数：10
Particularly helpful Moodlers的头像 Translators的头像

Now Google is digesting a double thrust, Google Just Lost a Big Antitrust Trial. But Now It Has To Face Yet Another.One, what do you think, will the US government break Google's monopoly?

And Will the Google Antitrust Ruling Change the Internet?

As a Moodler I am also curious to know the future of Moodle Global search, assuming that it is powered by Google.

平均分： Very cool (2)
回复Visvanath Ratnaweera

Re: Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Particularly helpful Moodlers的头像 Translators的头像
A related discussion just ran in the installation forum. See [4.4.2] PDF conversion not working.
平均分： -
回复Visvanath Ratnaweera

Re: Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Particularly helpful Moodlers的头像 Translators的头像
In those discussions I got the feeling that people don't know that Google is breaking the law, still believing that it operates in a gray zone. The list of court cases where Google lost is very long. The OP lists two recent ones. Here is a longer article on the first one: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-loses-antitrust-trial-in-major-blow-to-tech-giant-191745614.html and the epic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_Inc..
 
Talking of monopoly practices, trending... https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/09/08/066219/british-competition-regulator-says-googles-ad-practices-harmed-competition.
平均分： -
回复Visvanath Ratnaweera

Re: Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Particularly helpful Moodlers的头像 Translators的头像
War of dinosaucers!
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/08/doj-indicates-its-considering-google-breakup-following-monopoly-ruling.html

(found in https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/10/09/0339229/doj-indicates-its-considering-google-breakup-following-monopoly-ruling)
 
Also on BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62504lv00do
平均分： Very cool (1)
回复Visvanath Ratnaweera

Re: Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Particularly helpful Moodlers的头像 Translators的头像
The machines of justice are rolling, very, very slowly.

US Regulators Seek To Break Up Google, Forcing Chrome Sale
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0458216/us-regulators-seek-to-break-up-google-forcing-chrome-sale
平均分： -
回复Visvanath Ratnaweera

Re: Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Marcus Green -
Core developers的头像 Particularly helpful Moodlers的头像 Plugin developers的头像 Testers的头像
There is a saying in Journalism that for any headline that ends in a question mark the answer will be no.


平均分： Very cool (3)
回复Marcus Green

Re: Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Particularly helpful Moodlers的头像 Translators的头像
Yeah, that's a cheap trick. "Has the Moon exploded?" will get you lot of readers. But in our case there is this PDF and the BBC has too much experience not to be cheap: Sell Chrome to end search monopoly, Google told.
平均分： -
回复Visvanath Ratnaweera

Re: Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Maria Parker -

Selling Chrome may be a radical strategy, but it's unlikely to solve Google's core problem: their dominance of the search market.

平均分： -
回复Maria Parker

Re: Will the US government break Google's monopoly?

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Particularly helpful Moodlers的头像 Translators的头像
Looks like Google has found an easy solution: Linux Foundation Announces Initiative to Support Chromium Ecosystem.
平均分： -