US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

A rare bid to break up Alphabet Inc.'s Google is one of the options being considered by the Justice Department ...

Posted by Corky at 10:33 AM | 17 COMMENTS | permalink

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Let's hope it goes better than the "breakup" of Microsoft.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2024-08-14 11:29 AM

I would love to simply remove everything Google from my phone.

#2 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2024-08-14 12:45 PM

Google NEEDS to broken up.

Their search engine has gotten terrible.
The 1st 50 search results are by vendors,
and businesses, and people that have paid to
be on top of the search process.

You used to be able to get non-biased, or
relatively unbiased results. Now, as with
EVERYTHING else, it is pay to play.

More and more I use 'Duck Duck Go' and their
search engine, and skip all of the blatant
adds and people telling me 'how great their product is'.

If I want to know about your business, I will look it up!

Same thing on t.v. I just MUTE the commercials anymore...
soooooo annoying.

#3 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-08-14 02:16 PM

Unbiased search engine results lol. Search for Nazis on a project, end up with a link to Stormfront.

No, personalization of results requires biases or the results won't be relevant to the searcher.

#4 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-08-14 02:27 PM

If you created unbiased search results, you would end up with all of the biases inherent in the data itself.

#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-08-14 02:28 PM

The top of the search list is clearly marked "Sponsored." It's no big deal to scroll down.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-14 03:33 PM

Rut roh

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-08-14 03:40 PM

I wonder if this has anything to do with how the Harris campaign manipulated headlines?

Hmmmmmm

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-08-14 03:42 PM

I wonder if this has anything to do with how the Harris campaign manipulated headlines?

Hmmmmmm

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-08-14 03:42 PM | Reply

Said no Liberal ever. You are a fraud.

#9 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-08-14 03:47 PM

A clueless lefter than thou fraud.

He's so left, he's right all the time... in his head, of course.

People who make the perfect the enemy of the damn well good enough are aiding the terrible.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-14 04:42 PM

The top of the search list is clearly marked "Sponsored." It's no big deal to scroll down.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-14 03:33 PM | Reply

Yeah it IS a big deal. It wastes my time. I shouldn't have to scroll through pages
of search returns to get below the damned adds. Again, you are forcing me to look at
adds from products that I have expressed no interest in.

You stay on Google if you want Twin. I will stay on Duck Duck Go, and find what I am
looking for quicker, and without the extra hassle.

#11 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-08-15 06:39 AM

EARTHMUSE

I use Google for more than just a search engine. My bank requires a google account for phone verifying not only my bank account but also my email. Even I can't log in without a one time only code. I wish there was an alternative because there's lot of things I don't like about Google's privacy policy. They don't seem to have one.

Fortunately, the phone verify doesn't come directly from Google. There's a third party that actually sends me the log-in code. I have a second, unregistered phone line for just that purpose which I never use for anything else. So far, it's been a godsend.

Once hacked, twice shy.

#12 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-15 07:50 AM

#11 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-08-15 06:39 AM | Reply | Flag:

Well, no, that's not how search algorithms work. It's suggested because it's related to your search, it's geo-located to you, and the ads are paying for the service you are using. The data centers powering your search cost millions of dollars per day to run. All you have to do is scroll past a few relevant ads. You don't have to pay them a dime. You don't have to use the system at all so obviously you're not forced into it.

#13 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-08-15 10:58 AM

Understand Twin. Understand also if you own a lot of their stock.
But seriously (SITZ) blaming me, the consumer in this arrangement,
because I find their algorithm inconvenient, is not going to get you
anywhere. I will continue to use Duck Duck Go over Google unless they
modify their algorithm. It is simply more time efficient, gets me less
of the annoying adds, more of what I want.

#14 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-08-15 11:36 AM

EARTHMUSE

We're all free to do as we please and should be grateful we have choices . . . at least until Trump changes everything to State run media.

When that happens, we'll be crying in our beer over how good it used to be.

#15 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-08-15 12:55 PM

15.Twinpac. But it was decent and good once under the previous President. I refuse to give power to Google as a gateway to control my life and opinions and bank accounts and access and news. Go back to basics and your bank once a month and pull cash or write checks or credit card. Why even give them an open door? Google knows more about you than your psychiatrist. Startpage might be a much better search option if you believe what they say. Google needs to be fragmented.

#16 | Posted by Robson at 2024-08-16 08:12 AM

Blaming lol. You silly nut. I am mansplaining how it really works beyond your histrionic misrepresentations.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-08-16 08:30 AM

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