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> There are many other search engine options, why should Google be punished for hiring the best people over decades to make the best one?

I’m guessing this whole court case wouldn’t have been a thing if Google wasn’t bribing Apple, to the tune of $20 billion a year [1], to remain the default search engine on iOS.

1: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/apple-may-add-ai-search-...



Or more recently beginning to throw money at websites to lock out their competitors, which is why Bing and co can't index Reddit anymore.


That’s not accurate, Bing can index Reddit just fine


This doesn't look very fine to me...

https://www.bing.com/search?q=pope%20francis%20died%20site%3...

The results are all from before July 2024, when the Google deal was established.


Amazing how you can see that as Google bribing Apple instead of Apple extorting Google.


It would be a rather ineffective extortion if "customers would just switch" as the comment further above claims.




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