Google CEO Says Antitrust Remedies Would Cripple Google Search

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/30/google-search-crippled-antitrust-remedies/

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MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y

You've already crippled Google search.

besselj@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 1y

It was already crippled when Google decided it was better to make people spend more time searching for things than to have a useful google search tool. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 1y

Even if this is true, it's already so awful that I don't know how anyone would notice any difference. What would it do? Go from "really sucks" to "really really sucks?"

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 17 pts · 1y

Robber says locks would cripple home security market.

atro_city@fedia.io · 14 pts · 1y

If playing fair means the end of your entire business, then you're a bad business. Fuck off and good riddance. They probably held back or slowed innovation for years.

ButteryNickel@lemmy.wtf · 11 pts · 1y

That might be an improvement...

Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 1y

Good. Make it happen, posthaste.

thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y

Can't cripple it more than Google's own product managers already have.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 1y

It's already a fucking paraplegic

bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 1y
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M1ch431@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y

Google just needs broken up entirely. Corporations openly using their AI in war and engaging in mass surveillance is not the kind of world I want to live in.

rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Oh no, what would they do? Would they be forced to cram it full of ads? Would they be forced to shove a useless AI into it?? Oh god please don't ruin Google search, it's SO good at the moment!!! :(

mvilain@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y

So? I use Duck Duck Go anyway.

Botanicals@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Promise? 🤞

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

That's the point, yes.

njm1314@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Good

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

why are they gonna make google put ai in it?