Federal judge rules against Google in antitrust case
Ben Thompson on the Google remedy: "I think the answer to the remedy question is an injunction against Google making any sort of payments or revenue share for search; if you’re a monopoly you don’t get to extend your advantage with contracts, period"
The DOJ brought the right kind of case against an Aggregator, which stagnates by being too nice; the goal is for companies to act like they ...
https://stratechery.com/2024/friendly-google-and-enemy-remedies/
Umadbro
Stealth
a month ago
The only people this hurts is Mozilla and apple. And it helps Google saving $30B annually.
The bigger story from this case was judge dismissing the part where doj accused Google of stalling on Microsoft ads integration, with the line being “even a monopoly has no obligation to deal with rivals on their own terms.”
