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What is the suspected antitrust violation? > Their concerns ran from the way Google processes and ranks search results to the extent to which it protects users
by simplecomplex 7y ago
What is the suspected antitrust violation?
> Their concerns ran from the way Google processes and ranks search results to the extent to which it protects users’ personal information.
Ranking search results isn't anti-competitive and protecting user information isn't relevant to antitrust. Ranking search results is the service a search engine provides. Google doesn't stop other search engines from competing in the search space.
- aviraldg 7y agoIt would be quite amusing to see engineers trying to explain search algorithms to politicians and lawyers, I admit. Not as amusing as the questions they might ask or the solutions they might suggest, though.