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I don't get it. Can someone explain this so a child could understand? I can understand how Google has used their dominant search engine position to push Chrome
by fifilura 1y ago
I don't get it. Can someone explain this so a child could understand?
I can understand how Google has used their dominant search engine position to push Chrome. A lot has been said about that. Also in the Microsoft case for setting IE as default browser in Windows.
But I don't understand why it should be forbidden for Google to pay other browser vendors for directing searches to them. That just seems like well functioning market economy.
Is it for paying extra to be default? Is that worth 5x the money in the contract? Or is it just that they are paying too much - more than it is worth - to allow the competition to stay, in order to not become a monopoly?
- wkat4242 1y agoI think it's the latter. I don't think Google really cares about the default search engine. Microsoft didn't take the money and have their own stuff but it doesn't make any dent in Google's popularity (even now that Google is terribly enshittified and pretty much everything else is now better) I think it's propping up the competition to be just enough to be considered competition, but not really interfere with them milking their internet domination.