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Lets_Eat_Grandma ,

Okay, now loop in reddit’s bullshit exclusivity agreement to search results and make it so no one can favor any one search engine crawler or demand payment to be shown in search. If your content is publicly accessible it should be fair game to all.

Most companies will want their site to show up on other search engines but they knew what they were doing, you only search for it on google to find results because google’s own are an SEO ad riddled mess.

stoly ,

Yep, this contract is now suspect.

werefreeatlast ,

All your thoughts R belong to US!

Jocker ,

Nice… Now do it… Break them

wjrii ,

This is a big deal, but just a reminder that this is the District (trial) court, so the next step would be the Circuit Court of Appeals, followed by an appeal to the Supreme Court. There may be some intriguing injunctions that come out of this, but we’re years away from a final disposition.

For the curious, this one came out of the DC Circuit, informally known to be the most technically and administratively savvy circuit, as it deals with a LOT of nitty gritty stuff coming out of Federal agencies.

dohpaz42 ,
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I was about to comment that this is going to be appealed, and unless something changes with SCOTUS, my money is in it being reversed to some degree.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Stop making me sad, sir!!!

adarza ,

depends on when it hits the supreme court.

didn’t someone just say google was ‘very bad’ and should be ‘shut down’? …someone that helped stack the court to its current composition?

Thebeardedsinglemalt ,

Clarence Thomas is hiding behind a tree in a yellow suit rubbing his hands together for all the shit Google is gonna give to him to get this immediately overturned…

Electric_Druid ,

Finally, some good fucking news

Bob_Robertson_IX ,

Will this mean that no one will be able to pay to be the default search, or just that Google will no longer be allowed?

Honestly, Google is still the best free search even though it isn’t as good as it used to be… and if this ruling means that no one can pay to be the default then Google will still win based on name recognition and performance. Plus they will save money by not needing to give it to Apple.

The real loser here is Apple who is going to lose a fairly large revenue stream.

TheGalacticVoid ,

I imagine that, if regulators go hard enough, it’ll make sweeping changes company-wide. Google does a lot of anti-competitive behaviors that don’t involve money and are very sneaky, and as a result, we might see a lot of features be changed in the long term.

chiliedogg ,

I think this may also end up killing their deal with reddit.

Cornelius_Wangenheim ,

The biggest loser is Mozilla, who will lose about 80% of their revenue. If they enforce this, Firefox will pretty much be dead.

nintendiator ,

So now Mozilla can stop receiving their hush money, right?

Fades ,

FUCK YEAH!!! NOW BREAK THOSE BASTARDS UP!!!

HubertManne ,

we have so many freaking monopolies now a days. we really need to keep companies from owning so much. bring back the media limits and no company should be able to own multiple areas of healthcare and such.

Eldritch ,

Biggest “so far” they’re far from the only.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Ooooooooooh shit. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Ragnarok314159 ,

Will go to SCOTUS, a few bribes will happen, then it will die.

Stegget ,

Clone Teddy Roosevelt.

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