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An effective breakup of Google would entail requiring them to put their crawling infrastructure into a seperate company and require them to make it available to
by dkjaudyeqooe 6y ago
An effective breakup of Google would entail requiring them to put their crawling infrastructure into a seperate company and require them to make it available to other businesses at a reasonable cost, or get out of the crawling business entirely.
Might be tricky to implement but without something like this no one has a chance of competing with them.
- knuckleheads 6y agoAbsolutely, that's direct precedence with AT&T and the Yellow Pages when the government broke up AT&T. There's a really interesting angle to this where you consider Googlebot to be an "internet phonebook" and it becomes clear that Google needs to be regulated in order for anybody to be able to compete. I've written up an argument like this here: https://knuckleheads.club/the-secretaries-and-the-phonebooks/ https://knuckleheads.club/the-secretaries-and-the-phonebooks...