“WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies…”
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Google forces exclusive deals and its popularity means people optimize for it. Other search engines don’t have a chance when people expect Google.
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Who do they have an exclusive deal with? Are there sites you can currently only search on Google? Or browsers or similar that require you to use Google?
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The biggest one these days is Reddit but there are also cases historically
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