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> The most important "breakup" needs to be the ads business from everything else, including search. That's going to hurt, and I don't have the answers to how to
by EMIRELADERO 3y ago
> The most important "breakup" needs to be the ads business from everything else, including search. That's going to hurt, and I don't have the answers to how to make it work, but changes are needed.
You can be happy then.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-google-monopolizing-digital-advertising-technologies https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...
The press release doesn't mention it, but the actual court document asks the court to:
"Order the divestiture of, at minimum, the Google Ad Manager suite,
including both Google’s publisher ad server, DFP, and Google’s ad
exchange, AdX, along with any additional structural relief as needed to
cure any anticompetitive harm"
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoNote, too, that this is the DoJ. They, unlike the FTC, actually know what they are doing.
- ThunderSizzle 3y agoSarcasm alert?