A judge ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.

“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…”

  • hauiA
    1331·
    1 month ago

    I sincerely hope they get broken up.

    • atro_city@fedia.io
      361·
      1 month ago

      Betchu they’ll just send a check of 1 B to the FTC and say “that should pay the fine + interest” then go on with their day. Happened in a similar fashion before.

      • hauiA
        8·
        1 month ago

        Happy cake day. Yes, I‘m afraid that could happen. We‘ll see.

      • hauiA
        1·
        1 month ago

        In a perfect world, they would be cut into pieces not allowed to go over 999 mil usd but since that feverdream of mine is not becoming reality soon, I‘ll say they make them cut out departments that are not supposed to be vertically integrated like search engine and ad business. They pose a conflict of interest just by being in the same company.