Google Rejects Breakup, But Mulls Other Remedy Concessions by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 2, 2025 Google said at the ad tech antitrust remedies hearing on Friday it is willing to cooperate with rivals, but some industry executives do not feel that is enough to curtail any future monopoly strategies. The changes would mean … Continue reading Google Rejects Breakup, But Mulls Other Remedy Concessions
Google’s Monopoly Unpacked by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 18, 2025 U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled Thursday that Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, with the company willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges, technology and services that sit between … Continue reading Google’s Monopoly Unpacked
November 21, 2024 Will the DOJ’s proposal to break up Google survive the incoming administration? It’s a race against time to see whether a landmark court decision will stick. BY Chris Stokel-Walker The proposal filed on Wednesday by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to completely dismantle Google’s monopoly in the world of search would require the … Continue reading Will the DOJ’s proposal to break up Google survive the incoming administration?
Google Living Microsoft’s 20th-Century Nightmare by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 14, 2024 Will the U.S. Justice Department force Google’s parent Alphabet to shed at least one of its business units? It could take years for any type of breakup to be finalized. The ad industry has been batting around that possibility for years. … Continue reading Google Living Microsoft’s 20th-Century Nightmare
Changes in technology and consumer behavior make this the perfect moment for companies that want to challenge Google’s dominant market position. Constantine von Hoffman on August 6, 2024 Google’s loss in its federal antitrust case may mean huge changes for the company, web users and digital advertisers. It could result in a big hit … Continue reading What the Google antitrust ruling could mean for advertisers
July 02, 2024 Google is nowhere near its climate target. AI is partly to blame Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centers, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth. BY Associated Press Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” … Continue reading Google is nowhere near its climate target. AI is partly to blame
Former Googler Says AI Is Driven By ‘Stone-Cold Panic’ by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 20, 2024 Scott Jenson, former Google user interface strategist and designer, wrote in a LinkedIn post that the artificial intelligence (AI) projects he worked on were “poorly motivated” and driven by “mindless panic.” AI would make all projects great, … Continue reading Former Googler Says AI Is Driven By ‘Stone-Cold Panic’
Here are the key points under contention in the most significant anti-trust case of this century, Constantine von Hoffman on May 17, 2024 The Department of Justice made a pretty damning argument in its anti-trust case against Google. Judging by the government’s closing summary, the tech giant seems to have done everything wrong if … Continue reading Is Google a monopoly? The DOJ’s case in 11 slides
Among the findings: 91.4% of all search queries triggered SGE; Quora was a big winner; and paid search ads appeared 50% of the time. Danny Goodwin on March 25, 2024 There will be “some erosion of current traffic levels” from brand-related terms as a result of Google’s Search Generative Experience, according to a new Authoritas … Continue reading Google SGE a top threat to brand and product search terms, study finds
By Clint Rainey January 18, 2024 You’ve heard this claim before, but a new study lends academic credence to the common refrain that “Google is getting worse.” For a paper that’s being presented at March’s European Conference on Information Retrieval, a team of German researchers googled some 7,392 search terms once a week for … Continue reading Is Google getting worse? This is what leading computer scientists say
