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End of the road for Google ??

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up google and its browser Chrome - after a court found that google had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.Blimey - 'an abusive monopoly' - sounds like the w4 forum ! The enemies of free speech hunt in packs...

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 34d15 Comments

If anyone can afford them.

Janice Evans ● 24d

Forget about Google. It seems it’s the end of the road for IPhones and Samsung when Elon Musk’s incredible Tesla phones are released.

Steve Taylor ● 24d

Hope so it's been great for recipes in the air fryer, plus I never knew you could do cheese on toast in it.

Janice Evans ● 25d

Don’t worry. Google is here to stay.

Steve Taylor ● 25d

I hope google is here to stay,

Janice Evans ● 25d

“You  mean the way they are all leaving X/Twitter for Bluesky ?”But they haven’t have they. They are all mouth and no action. Those who tweet are desperate to get their message across so there’s no way they are leaving X I think Cllr Lambert is a genuine chap and is probably the one in 20 million who has left but as for the rest of them - forget it. Do you think someone like Skidmark would ever leave X?  He would have a nervous breakdown if he couldn’t spout his BS to the maximum amount of likeminded snowflakes to stroke his deflated ego.

Steve Taylor ● 27d

Yeh, everyone is leaving X forbluesky, we'll a few but haveyou noticed those who haveleft X for bluesky have notdeleted the X account but juststopped using x until the daycomes when they all return to X

Julian Pavey ● 27d

You mean the way they are all leaving X/Twitter for Bluesky ?

Richard Greenhough ● 27d

Google is here to stay unless Elon Musk starts a new search engine because everyone will then leave Google to join Musk’s company.

Steve Taylor ● 27d

That's an over-simplistic account of the situation. The problem isn't the popularity of Chrome per se, but rather that the dominance of Chrome stifles competition in the internet search field. The DOJ alleged that Google engages in illegal practices to suppress competing search engines, such as Bing (Microsoft have their own dubious ways of trying to push Windows customers towards Bing) and DuckDuckGo. Google has negotiated with Apple and Android smartphone manufacturers to be the default search device on their phones, which has effectively barred other search engine manufacturers from the marketplace. Its near monopoly  (94.9% of the market for mobile search engines) has allowed Google to ramp up digital ad prices.

Robert Fish ● 27d

Indeed Julian, though with Konspiracy Karen being the author we can expect little else.

Mark Frost ● 27d

Basically most people use chromebecause the likes of microsoftedge is crap in comparison andbecause people use Chrome that suddenly it's unfair.Complete rubbish, if you want to be as equal or better than yourrivals you produce a product thatgives you that edge.Complete rubbish of a story but hey ho

Julian Pavey ● 27d

Marlene Plimley ● 27d

I think they would still have pulled off The Great Covid Scam without Google. People are thick..

Michael Brown ● 33d

Could they have run the covid scam so successfully in Uk without the assistance of google ? My money is on NO.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 33d