Google and Apple's Search Engine Deal Violates Antitrust Law

[macfacts]

I disagree. When someone works hard to put a site together and Google slaps the required information on the front page avoiding the source altogether it hurts the original creator financially (if he makes money from it) and his creative rights.

I know you don't live in the USA but are a teacher, so learn up on fair use in USA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

 

[Graphate]

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Once a guy who works in the search business told me to have a search engine on par of Google you need something like $300 million. No one is willing to put that much to rival Google especially when they have no way to monetize it except via ads which will not give anyone any reason to switch from Google.

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I really don’t want to disagree with Guy-who-works-in-the-search-business but is $300 million a deterrence? And I wonder if Guy-who-works-in-the-search-business would change his mind now knowing Google’s anticompetitive practices are now being scrutinized…

 

[Abazigal]

I really don’t want to disagree with Guy-who-works-in-the-search-business but is $300 million a deterrence? And I wonder if Guy-who-works-in-the-search-business would change his mind now knowing Google’s anticompetitive practices are now being scrutinized…

It’s still too early to say, IMO, without knowing exactly what sort of penalties Google will face.

For example, quite a few here have suggested Kagi as a viable paid alternative. Disregarding the recent controversy, and even if there are users willing to pay, the inability to set it as your default search engine in safari makes it a non-starter for many people.

 

[MacBH928]

I really don’t want to disagree with Guy-who-works-in-the-search-business but is $300 million a deterrence? And I wonder if Guy-who-works-in-the-search-business would change his mind now knowing Google’s anticompetitive practices are now being scrutinized…

ok fine.

The guy was Vladimir Prelovac who owns Kagi.com search. When he was asked on Discord server why the search service does not have an independent index instead of relying on Google and Bing for results, he said to make a comparable search index they probably need funding few hundred million. DuckDuckGo is valued at $300 million and still rely on Bing.

Currently they have 32,000 subscribers whichs should amount to close $320,000 revenue per month/ approx. $4 million a year.