Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?

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The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades

most significant antitrust case in more than 20 years

Why is this significant? Basically, because the US government has been asleep at the wheel for almost a quarter of a century and has finally woken up to its democratic responsibilities. The last time it stirred itself to take on an aggressive monopolist was in 2001, when it sued Microsoft for illegally tying its Internet Explorer browser to Windows as part of a campaign to destroy, which Bill Gates and co perceived as a potentially lethal competitive threat.

I gave up using Google years ago, but even occasional visits have tended to confirm its decay, which is understandable given that

 

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