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How the lawsuit against Google has already changed the world – analysis
[Jpost] Until Tuesday’s suit, Big Tech was beyond the rulesThe tech world is not the same planet that it was before Tuesday. On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit, which in its broadest implications could lead to the breakup of Google and eventually other tech giants like Facebook. No lawsuit since the 1998 case against Microsoft has carried similarly fateful consequences. While Google, Facebook, Amazon and others are credited with providing a wide range of important services to billions of human beings across the planet, recent years have seen a dark side to some of their dominance. If at one point, Google shared the search engine business with a variety of other competitors, the US lawsuit said that currently Google controls nearly 90% of all general search engine queries in the United States and almost 95% of searches on mobile. It is hard to imagine the breakup of a company whose name has become a verb (go Google that for me) and is so dominant that children of a certain age do not even realize that there is a difference between the Internet and Google. The potential sledgehammer to Google, with more major antitrade lawsuits against tech giants on the way, comes after major evolution in recent years. Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-22 |
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