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Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules (apnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by gytrash@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies..."

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[–] Barx@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wonder what will happen to Firefox if this ruling means Google can't pay them to default to their search engine. That's a large chunk of their funding.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wonder what will happen to Firefox if this ruling means Google can't pay them to default to their search engine.

Yahoo was Firefox's default search engine between 2014 and 2017. It would have lasted longer, but Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo prompted Mozilla to terminate it. They can sign a deal with another search engine if the deal with Google falls through. In China, Baidu is the default search engine, and in Russia, Yandex is.

Certainly Google will be more careful after this ruling, but nothing will actually go into effect at least for several years, if it ever does, because Google is appealing.

That's a large chunk of their funding.

That's true. When Mozilla resumed their search deal with Google in 2017, Google provided 91% of their revenue. But the percent of Mozilla's revenue derived from Google has decreased every year since then, most recently at 81% as of 2022.

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

And recently, Mozilla has been trying to develop a privacy-preserving ads business.

I'm not a big fan of ads, but if Mozilla can actually make ads that don't track users, and are uninvasive, they might be able to garner some market share in the ad space, and distance their revenue from Google even further.

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

They previously had a big deal with Yahoo! For a few years didn't they? They'll just sign with whoever wants to give them money.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 3 months ago

Mozilla could do search themselves.