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The wheels of the legal system turn so much slower than the fierce competition and relentless change of technology markets. By the time this is resolved in the
by crazy1van 11y ago
The wheels of the legal system turn so much slower than the fierce competition and relentless change of technology markets. By the time this is resolved in the courts, Google probably won't even be dominant in search / ads anymore -- just like Microsoft lost its stranglehold on the browser market before the antitrust case was resolved.
- toyg 11y agoYou have your dates wrong. The US antitrust case was settled in 2001. Back then, there still was no real competitor to IE: Netscape had disbanded and Mozilla was still releasing only the full suite. Webkit did not exist (its predecessor KHTML was kinda crappy) and Chrome wouldn't be released before 2008. There is a line of thinking that says MS stopped working on the browser not just because they had killed Netscape, but because the antitrust case turned that market into a minefield. In any case, they had a full decade of dominance post-antitrust. In any case, the whole process took about 3 years. Quite a lot in technology terms, but not really that long. 3 years from now, I don't see Google going anywhere nor any competitor taking over -- technology in search hasn't changed much in the last 5 years, if anybody could take a real shot at unseating google they would have done it by now.