Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser recently announced a coalition of 38 attorneys general and the Department of Justice have proposed a final package of remedies to end Google’s monopoly over internet search engines.
The remedies would include requiring Google to divest Chrome, as well as potentially other assets like Android if the initial remedies fail “to address the marketplace harms or if Google undermined the effectiveness of the decree.”
my default is duck duck go. it's easy to change the default browser on your device. don't know why all these state AGs have to get involved unless the explanation is that 97% of people are stupid or too lazy to change? Oh, I think I just answered my own question. . . . .
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DeleteDDG uses g00gle algorithms for their searches.
@KurtP - Exactly, although if you open two tabs and enter the same search parameters side by side with Google in one tab and DDG in another you don't always get the same results.
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The 1984 AT&T divestature all over again
ReplyDeleteThose were my thoughts too
DeleteThese AGs and the DoJ ever head of DuckDuckGo? Stop fucking with successful companies and prosecute a couple of people on the Epstein list.
ReplyDeleteIs Google even a search engine any more? 90% of the time when trying to research something, I just get pages of ads on the off chance that, when researching the history of the Frankfurter I might want to know which stores near me sell them, restaurant options who will deliver them, stores selling appliances to prepare them,and countless other junk hoping I might click on it having decided I'd rather spend money on something than actually get information I was hoping a search engine might return.
ReplyDeleteRun an adblocker. I use uBlock Origin, and I never see stuff like that.
DeleteAd Block+ and Ghostery make all that stuff disappear also.
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I know I'm late to the party, and it's going to rub some people's fur the wrong way, but try Yandex. Yeah, the Russian search engine. If your .gov will let you. And do a side by side search and compare results. Big Bro Google does a lot more than just bombard us with ads. But I don't have to tell this crowd that...
DeleteSo, Google's standard fckery is so obsolete and exposed and they have another sneaky thing going on and this hangout is supposed to mollify us. *yawn* Ok, impress me.
ReplyDeleteAlpha Bet Corporation Decree Exists For Good
ReplyDeleteAs usual, gov't gets involved after it's already working itself out. If you're using Google to search for anything, stop, hit the back arrow, and go to Chatgpt or other LLM. Don't waste any more time.
ReplyDeleteTranslated: "THEY WANT TO CENSOR WHAT GOOGLE IS SHOWING".
ReplyDeleteIf you want to omit AI from giggle searches, preface your query with "Before:2023".
ReplyDeleteIf you look into which search engines algorithm uses, 95% of the time it's g00gle, and the results come up slanted like they came from g00gle.
ReplyDeleteThe search engines I know that don't are Brave.com and gibiru.com
I have an old gmail account and linked my old cell # to Google Voice. But use Duck as main engine. But Barney still spies on me.
ReplyDeleteObviously not one of you who is complaining about the government actually doing their job for a change have actually read the whole article or seem at all aware of what the anti-trust ruling even encompasses. Skipping to the chase for the 5 second attention span readers- it's a good thing.
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