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huitzitziltzin
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The antitrust trial against Google is starting in ...
The DoJ is welcome to make a claim on monopolizing the
ad
market. The case here is about monopolizing the
search
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scyzoryk_xyz
on Aug 6, 2023
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Isn’t the whole point that they’re tightly intertwined? You pay to advertise in the relevant search results of your customers.
huitzitziltzin
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That’s not the law, so it’s irrelevant to the legal issues.
scyzoryk_xyz
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I don’t mean the law. I mean how the actual ad/search product actually works. As a Google customer I pay them to present my stuff the way I want it to my customers when they search for stuff about the things I sell. That’s the product, no?
huitzitziltzin
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That’s not relevant to the monopolization claim here though.
HWR_14
on Aug 7, 2023
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On the contrary, antitrust law has a lot of rules about using dominance in one industry to prop up another.
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