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Google has a well-documented history of anti-competitive behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea
by blub 7y ago
Google has a well-documented history of anti-competitive behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google
They were also literally stealing money from people using their ad platform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103280
The FTC found that Google illegally took content from competitors, but Google was able to lobby away any punitive action: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/20/google-illegally-took-content-from-amazon-yelp-tripadvisor-ftc-report https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/20/google-il...
If they do compensate any web sites it's only because the sites are too big to steal from or because they were sued and lost.