The search deals were already not exclusive. The real impact will be the other businesses (especially GenAI) where Google will be barred from having exclusivity clauses in its contracts.
-update- CNBC has fixed their headline.
Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
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Re: Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
#12When the stock pops 10% on the announcement you got your antitrust enforcement wrong.
Or the stock price was suppressed pending antitrust decision?
Re: Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
#13When the stock pops 10% on the announcement you got your antitrust enforcement wrong.
Do you think it's better if all companies with competitive moats have a collapse in share price? I'm not really understanding what you're implying here.
Re: Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
#14The BBC is reporting the exact opposite of this headline. "It's also free to keep making payments to partners such as Apple, to secure placement of its browser - another closely watched and contentious part of the case." https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cg50dlj9gm4t Edit: Even the CNBC body text contradicts its own headline. The confusion seems to be what "exclusive" means. "The company can make payments to preload prod…
CNBC also says "illegally held a monopololy".
When they can't spell, it's a sign the article was poorly rushed?
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#15The headline is not great because Google will obviously appeal the ruling to the appeals court of DC, and if they have to, the Supreme Court. A lot can happy from now and then. And this may take many years to grind through the court system. I wonder if there exists AI models of all the super senior and important judges so we can venture how this will play out through the court system.
Could the final vertict be worse for Google?
There are ways if could be, such as new evidence coming to light, but generally no. You don't want a system where people are punished for appealing.
Re: Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
#16The BBC is reporting the exact opposite of this headline. "It's also free to keep making payments to partners such as Apple, to secure placement of its browser - another closely watched and contentious part of the case." https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cg50dlj9gm4t Edit: Even the CNBC body text contradicts its own headline. The confusion seems to be what "exclusive" means. "The company can make payments to preload prod…
Gotta keep the cash flowing because the scam is too big.
"Cutting off payments from Google almost certainly will impose substantial—in some cases, crippling— downstream harms to distribution partners, related markets, and consumers, which counsels against a broad payment ban."
Re: Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
#17When the stock pops 10% on the announcement you got your antitrust enforcement wrong.
Do you think it's better if all companies with competitive moats have a collapse in share price? I'm not really understanding what you're implying here.
I don't understand. The court has ruled this already a year ago:
> Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly
What should be the effect of antitrust enforcement to a monopolists share price? We are looking at something structural after all.
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#18What does this mean for Mozilla? Where would Mozilla get their 80% of revenue from if Google now has to probably sever and end their search deal for Firefox? [0]. [0] https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-r...
Google is allowed to continue paying companies like Mozilla and Apple to be the default search engine.
The CNBC article is very unclear. This bitsy BBC one is a bit better: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cg50dlj9gm4t
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#19This is an astonishing victory for Google, they must be very happy about it.
They get basically everything they want (keeping it all in the tent), plus a negotiating position on search deals where they can refuse something because they can't do it now.
Quite why the judge is so concerned about the rise of AI factoring in here is beyond me. It's fundamentally an anticompetitive decision.
Re: Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
#20The BBC is reporting the exact opposite of this headline. "It's also free to keep making payments to partners such as Apple, to secure placement of its browser - another closely watched and contentious part of the case." https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cg50dlj9gm4t Edit: Even the CNBC body text contradicts its own headline. The confusion seems to be what "exclusive" means. "The company can make payments to preload prod…
I don't see the contradiction "paying partners to secure browser placement" =/ "exclusivity." This just means you can have partner deals, but that they can't be exclusive, right?