Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company's rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government's landmark antitrust trial against Google's parent company, Alphabet. The Justice Department alleges Google has abused the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine to throttle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers, allegations that echo a similar case brought against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government’s landmark antitrust trial against Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The Justice Department alleges Google has abused the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine to throttle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers, allegations that echo a similar case brought against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
That’s rich coming from the company that tries to force new windows operating systems on people, and installs its own boot loader when running Linux partitions.
I don’t care about either, just want better search back. Does anyone remember when you could search for a specific product or part and the first link was to the manufacturer? Now you have to sort through sponsored content, various retailers, link spam, paywalled articles, video reviews (usually made by bots), and social media posts to get to the manufacturers website.
Yes, it’s clear Google search is broken. Even searching for things you know exist may not show up in the search results no matter how specific you are.
No ms, your search offering was such utter shit that only the AI boom saved you from the death it deserved and your attack on google comes to late - google is already falling from its pedistal on its own because they’ve enshitified the service.
Microsoft demands a level playing field so that its own unfair practices are able to compete in the free market of unfair practices. It’s the American way.
Fuck this guy, Microsoft is just as guilty. Their business practices are based around limiting competition and exterminating it, the only reason they don’t have a monopoly on cloud platforms is because they were to busy trying to sell overpriced Windows server, SQL and office licenses to businesses and Amazon jumped into the cloud business first. Look at what they’re doing with Activision-Blizzard, the Indiana Jones video game from Bethesda, Starfield exclusivity etc. in the gaming space. This shit is part of the reason why I run Linux.
I very much agree with the general sentiment here about Microsoft’s substantial hypocrisy and what a bad look it is, but isn’t it likely to the benefit of consumers if these large companies are helping fuel legitimate antitrust lawsuits at each other?
Nadella said Google’s dominance was due to agreements that made it the default browser on smartphones and computers.
Google gained dominance in the early 2000s when the dominant platform was the smart phone Windows computer, which had a default browser of Google Chrome Internet Explorer and a default search engine of Google MSN search.
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Duck Duck Go > Google > Bing
If the world was fair, both Microsoft and Google search engines would be left behind in favor of a federated and open source solution.
Isn’t DDG using Bing though? What’s that paid search engine I’ve been hearing more about? Reviews seem to actually be descent.
DDG aggregates a few engines I think. Bing is among them.
Rich person complaining about other rich person being scummier than them and getting ahead.
“They got away with more than me, how’s that fair,” questions Tech CEO.
That’s rich coming from the company that tries to force new windows operating systems on people, and installs its own boot loader when running Linux partitions.
How about shutting up until Windows no longer forces you to use Edge and Bing without the option to change or remove them.
It’s a bold strategy, Satya. Let’s see if it pays off.
I don’t care about either, just want better search back. Does anyone remember when you could search for a specific product or part and the first link was to the manufacturer? Now you have to sort through sponsored content, various retailers, link spam, paywalled articles, video reviews (usually made by bots), and social media posts to get to the manufacturers website.
Yes, it’s clear Google search is broken. Even searching for things you know exist may not show up in the search results no matter how specific you are.
Okay Microsoft. Good thing your business track record includes 0 unfair practices in your history.
No ms, your search offering was such utter shit that only the AI boom saved you from the death it deserved and your attack on google comes to late - google is already falling from its pedistal on its own because they’ve enshitified the service.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
I mean, they’d know.
Oh how the turn tables…
Microsoft demands a level playing field so that its own unfair practices are able to compete in the free market of unfair practices. It’s the American way.
Ok. Not like they haven’t done the same lol
Fuck this guy, Microsoft is just as guilty. Their business practices are based around limiting competition and exterminating it, the only reason they don’t have a monopoly on cloud platforms is because they were to busy trying to sell overpriced Windows server, SQL and office licenses to businesses and Amazon jumped into the cloud business first. Look at what they’re doing with Activision-Blizzard, the Indiana Jones video game from Bethesda, Starfield exclusivity etc. in the gaming space. This shit is part of the reason why I run Linux.
I very much agree with the general sentiment here about Microsoft’s substantial hypocrisy and what a bad look it is, but isn’t it likely to the benefit of consumers if these large companies are helping fuel legitimate antitrust lawsuits at each other?
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Google gained dominance in the early 2000s when the dominant platform was the
smart phoneWindows computer, which had a default browser ofGoogle ChromeInternet Explorer and a default search engine ofGoogleMSN search.Those were truly dark times