US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown
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“Those payments have frozen the ecosystem.”
Dahlquist makes the case for banning Google from offering payments for default placement on platforms, singling out its “astronomical” revenue-sharing deal with Apple. “If we continue to let Google pay for distribution, it will continue to win every contract,” he said. “Nobody can pay as much as Google.” He extends this to how Google is handling Gemini default placement.
Mehta asks: does this argument depend on him declaring Gemini a search access point? “I don’t think so,” Dahlquist says. Even if it’s not right now, “it certainly could be tomorrow.”
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