Google has put an end to the internet. But there is hope for bringing it back to life after the US District Court for DC recently decided against Google in a huge antitrust case, saying that it is a monopoly that hurts customers by acting in ways that hurt competition.
It’s been true for a long time. That’s because more than 90% of searches go through Google. The word “Google” has come to mean online study; people now “google” stuff they want to learn more about. Google’s tight grip on search not only lets the company control the flow of information, but it also lets it collect a huge amount of information about its users. Google can also control online ads thanks to this data collection.
People on the left think they are the only ones who can tell you the truth, but Google actually allows them to do that.
To stay on top, Google naturally pays for a large group of agents and fans in government and other places. On the other hand, even the best shill can’t hide what everyone already knows.
Hannah Cox, a spokeswoman for Big Tech, is one of these shills. She wrote about the court’s ruling in Newsweek. Cox said, “Google isn’t even close to being a monopoly.” She used the old-fashioned meaning of a monopoly to say that Google isn’t one because there are other (much smaller) search engines out there. In addition, she said that Google hasn’t hurt users, even if it were a monopoly.
All of that is false, of course. In response to Cox’s article, writer and law expert Aron Solomon said that Google is in fact a monopoly and that it hurts users by violating their privacy, narrowing their choices, and making them less satisfied. “In the case of Google,” he wrote, “its search engine monopoly affects not only search results but also the ads people see, the information Google collects about them, and their whole experience online. Making the market more competitive would give customers more options, protect their privacy, and make them happier.”
To be honest, nobody wants to use Google if they don’t have to. It’s the search engine that comes with most gadgets and websites, so people mostly use it.
Solomon said, “Google has made sure that its search engine is the default available choice on billions of devices around the world by locking in deals with companies like Apple, Samsung, and Mozilla. Users then have to find another app and set it as their preference in order to use something other than Google.”
But this might not help because results from other search engines often look like Google’s. Since Google handles so many searches, it pretty much decides what the findings are. This group chooses which news sources should be online and which ones shouldn’t. Since more than 90% of internet users depend on Google, the search engine’s results firmly establish the fame and popularity of every website on the internet.
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