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> But the DOJ wants to argue that No. That's NOT what the DOJ wants to argue. Yes, the complaint itself does refer to market share, but it doesn't specificall

> But the DOJ wants to argue that No. That's NOT what the DOJ wants to argue. Yes, the complaint itself does refer to market share, but it doesn't specifically refer to "92 percent of the world's internet searches". In fact, the complaint refers to market share within the United States, since that's geographically relevant to the case. What happens elsewhere isn't. [1] [1] https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/GOOGLEANTITRUST_10-20-20.pdf https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/GOOGLEANTITRUST... This is what the NYTimes wrote: > The Justice Department, which is asking for a court injunction preventing Google from entering into deals like the one it made with Apple, argues that the arrangement has unfairly helped make Google, which handles 92 percent of the world’s internet searches, the center of consumers’ online lives. 92 percent links to a report by statcounter.com [2]. That's the NYTimes making a claim about Google's market share and linking to a source. If you read the sentence even more carefully, you'll see the word "which" appear twice. "Which" grammatically denotes a non-defining clause from the perspective of the writer. It's information that you could remove without altering the core of the sentence: [3] "The Justice Department argues that the arrangement has unfairly helped make Google the center of consumers’ online lives" More importantly, "which" is gramatically used from the perspective of the writer to give a bit of non-essential background to the sentence. And so, what is absolutely NOT being said here, is that the DOJ claims that Google holds a 92 percent market share. [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s... [3] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/which-vs-that/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/which-vs-that/

pessimizer 6y ago
The NYT constantly embellishes like this, it's a really shitty part of its style. If you want to add information, don't infix it within a description of the Justice Department's argument. At least put the editorial in a different paragraph, if not the editorial section.
- CaptArmchair 6y ago
  That sentence is grammatically entirely correct, neither is it misleading. I don't see how it embellishes the core meaning of the phrase. Is it harder to read with two non-defining clauses? That's something else.
Despegar 6y ago
From page 30 of the DoJ filing: >Over the years, Google has steadily increased its dominant position in general search services. In July 2007, Google estimated its general search services market share at 68 percent. By June 2013, Google estimated that its share in the United States had already increased to 77 percent on computers. By April 2018, Google estimated that its share was 79 percent on computers and 93.5 percent on mobile. More recently, Google has accounted for almost 90 percent of all general search engine queries in the United States, and almost 95 percent of queries on mobile devices. Recent share estimates are in Figures 7 and 8.

pessimizer 6y ago

The NYT constantly embellishes like this, it's a really shitty part of its style. If you want to add information, don't infix it within a description of the Justice Department's argument. At least put the editorial in a different paragraph, if not the editorial section.

CaptArmchair 6y ago
That sentence is grammatically entirely correct, neither is it misleading. I don't see how it embellishes the core meaning of the phrase. Is it harder to read with two non-defining clauses? That's something else.

Despegar 6y ago

From page 30 of the DoJ filing: >Over the years, Google has steadily increased its dominant position in general search services. In July 2007, Google estimated its general search services market share at 68 percent. By June 2013, Google estimated that its share in the United States had already increased to 77 percent on computers. By April 2018, Google estimated that its share was 79 percent on computers and 93.5 percent on mobile. More recently, Google has accounted for almost 90 percent of all general search engine queries in the United States, and almost 95 percent of queries on mobile devices. Recent share estimates are in Figures 7 and 8.