Google Could Change Forever

There seems to be having an onslaught of legal trouble from the US Government. More than any other tech company in the last 25 years. First the anti-trust loss and now a court case over their online ad dominance. What does this all mean for us and what happens next? Today we find out.

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[D_Winds]

There is, without a doubt, a decrease in the quality and relevance of Google search results, over the past 5 years.

[SproutyPottedPlant]

When you have to stick the word Reddit into every technical Google search you know it’s broken!

[baronvonslambert]

"There's already rumors that Google Search is indeed getting worse."
No, not rumors, it's been quite apparent for the better part of a decade. Google's search is so bad because of the paid results and how heavily web pages are all optimized for it, it's been basically useless outside of searching for nearby food and it's only good at that because of the maps integration.

[pmmd]

There is no way that a company owning 95% of the market is doing its best for the consumer. It simply doesn't need to try hard anymore.

[ToxicallyMasculinelol]

I think you're misunderstanding the word "antitrust" at around 2:20. "Antitrust behavior" is not something a company does. Antitrust activity is something the _government_ does, to attack _trusts_ (which are what companies do). A trust is a group of companies that have made an agreement to collude to their mutual advantage, typically in a way that harms the consumer, the archetypal example being agreements to fix prices. So when businesses do something anticompetitive, that's not antitrust activity, that's _trust_ activity. And when the government steps in to prosecute these cartels, that's called antitrust activity. Nowadays, corporate trusts are very rare in the United States. So antitrust law is used mainly to prosecute individual businesses that seem to have a stranglehold on a market, called a virtual monopoly. These laws, which were intended to prosecute cartels, are now used to prosecute individual businesses for using anticompetitive practices to stifle competition, and to break up businesses when they are perceived as too dominant. Those are two separate kinds of action, but they are often intertwined. In Google's case, the latter may be brewing as a consequence of the former. In Nvidia's case, some years ago, the company was prosecuted for its anticompetitive secret agreements with PC manufacturers (which unfairly hindered competitors like AMD from competing), but the business itself was not broken up by the government. Just forced to pay a fine and do some "corporate culture" BS to "teach executives that this is not allowed to make sure it doesn't happen again, " as if they didn't know it was illegal when they did it lol.

[rileyf]

90% of my Google searches now end with “reddit”

[frk]

I mean killing adblockers and not cleaning malware from their adsense network is clearly not a good or "innovative" thing to do

[skeetrix]

They broke up standard oil because they were a monopoly -how google has been allowed to operate in the same fashion for years is mind boggling

[adityaagarwal]

I am an SEO, I have observed quality articles go down and get replaced by poorly written articles for many sites. Only way out for businesses is to invest in ads. Last year Google's search algo update resulted in many quality sites loosing 90%+ traffic within days because Google considered those sites "unhelpful". Thereafter, it started showing Reddit (with which Google has its own alliance) in those top search results. Monopoly isn't necessarily bad, considering monopology is a proof of success, but using monopoly to build anti-consumer behavior is a bullshit.

I really hope Google gets broken into 4-5 companies and search can be made better again.

[diapozitīvs]

I have just one problem with Google. No, two:
1) killing of its products - the Google graveyard
2) privacy issues/snooping that come with stalking in the name of ads, going a bit too far in this regard.

[SurvivorsQuest]

I for one feel like Google Search, Chrome, and YouTube have all taken a turn for the worse over the past few years.

[KnowPiracy-zuil]

If they were a monopoly merely because they were the best, they wouldn't need to employ anti-competitive tactics.

[InspirationalSpaceship]

Google be like 3 Billion results. Only loads 8 results and no more results

[fuqupal]

Google singed a billions of dollar contract with the NSA in 2019.
And we had NO insight into what it was about!
Nuff said!

[york]

It's always really frustrating to see a conversation say you don't break up a company unless they've done bad. You break them up because they drive up prices and stifle innovation. That means we're all paying more for less because those monopolies keep new players out. We don't even know what we've missed out on because monopolies have taken that from us. They don't have to actively be doing harm. The very nature of being a monopoly is harm enough.

[dx-ekvr]

Google’s motto used to be “don’t be evil”

[shardsforme]

For those wondering: Firefox was born on being trampled over. Netscape Navigator would die around the time of the case and be reborn as Firefox.

[Marqan]

"Europe pays a high price for its overregulation of the digital economy"
No, it's US citizens who pay a very high price for being at the mercy of improperly regualted companies.

[william.darrigo]

what's up with this anti-success argument? Makes no sense. It's anti-competitive because now if I'm a business owner, I have to lose way more to advertisers such as Google, which makes it more difficult for me to run my business.

[darrengs]

My website completely died after Google’s August 13th algorithm! Web traffic was cut in half from their last change. Now we’re getting nothing and they’ve completely killed my 11-year business.