People aren't going to like this, but taking a page from Apple, Microsoft, Sony (iPhone, Xbox, Playstation), the solution to constant antitrust charges stemming from competitors on your platform....is to kick them off the platform. You can't be anti-competitive if you have no competitors.

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thayne 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That is even more obviously anti-competitive.

Not that we've seen any effective enforcement against it...

	▲	Danox 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sony, Nintendo never had any pretense. If you want to be on their system, you basically have to go in and have a personal job interview to be on their system and they make no bones about it that it’s their system, and you’re there for as long as they want you there. Originally Apple was going to be a closed system and originally was just gonna have web apps, but a whole bunch of developers beg them to open up a store and a few years later, a few of the big companies were crying because Apple was successful and wanted special treatment. In reality, how many different apps do you need? Do you need 3 million apps? One can probably get by with 50,000 apps. It would still basically be the same in terms of user experience. Most users wouldn’t even know the difference. The only people crying would be other businesses. who want to latch on. Note: Sony Nintendo over the years get very helpful people, so-called experts who say they must change the way they do things to conform with everyone else, but they never do. still in business, and still kicking Microsoft’s ass.
	▲	WarmWash 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Epic games sued both Apple and Google for anti-competitive behavior on the respective platforms. Google was ruled a monopoly, Apple was not. Every took notes.
	▲	throw1234567891 an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		No? Apple in the EU?
	▲	Teever 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Right? Like the through line for all of this stuff is limp and ineffective enforcement. Fines need to start doubling for every time one of these companies reoffend.

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victorbjorklund 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pretty sure Google would loose its search business if Google search only contained websites owned by Google.

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sigmoid10 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Because of the introduction of AI overview, click-through rates are dropping like crazy. Up to 70% of Google searches now end without any clicks to third party websites. So most search users already stay completely within Google's ecosystem.

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fsuts 4 hours ago | parent [-]

But does that apply to shopping?

I have often had a look at Google shopping results but very rarely clicked one.

I think when searching for an answer ai assist is often sufficient but not for where you are buying?

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giancarlostoro 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> I have often had a look at Google shopping results but very rarely clicked one.

Pretty sure that tab is all ads, so its all garbage, in some cases some of the results look like scams.

	▲	dmurray 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It worked great for me recently buying running shoes. I knew what shoes I wanted, there are plenty of no-name merchants selling them, competing on price (last year's model, so not being sold in big name stores). Click through each of them, find one with the right size, colour, delivery prices. Very painless. If some of the merchants are scams, I wouldn't know, my shoes arrived anyway. Instead of "all ads, so it's all garbage" this is exactly what I wish all advertising could be.
	▲	brainwad 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's not all ads. Indeed it's mostly not.