For 20 years, Google Search has been unstoppable. Invincible. So completely dominant that would-be rivals usually couldn’t even get funding, as a result of buyers didn’t see the purpose in attempting. However earlier this yr, a decide declared that Google’s energy, and the way in which the corporate wields it, was an unlawful monopoly. And so now the US Division of Justice has to determine easy methods to undo it.
We attempt to determine whether or not any of those proposals are prone to come to cross — there’s nonetheless a lot of authorized course of left earlier than something right here is ultimate — and what it will imply for Google, and the web, in the event that they did. We additionally attempt to guess what the incoming Trump administration may take into consideration all this, and the way the case may change within the subsequent few months.
If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we talk about on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Google and the DOJ:
And in AI and gadget information:
And within the lightning spherical:
