Should we break Google up into multiple companies?
Added 2024-08-22 14:31:34 +0000 UTCUS government is for the first time considering this as an option for anti-trust involvement. Last time this happened was with AT&T/Bell Corp. in the 1980s. Their focus is Google Search and the Play Store. However, you can give answer on any one of the bundle of Google products (YouTube, Adsense, GMS, and others). Feel free to elaborate your thoughts in the comments!
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Fair point
Hasty Pastry
2024-10-21 20:12:57 +0000 UTCThat's an interesting read. Thanks for this. I guess it could be argued - if Google is indeed the best option, why would it need to pay that muchtoo be the default? Wouldn't services just naturally pick the best for the best user experience?
The Hated One
2024-10-21 19:35:14 +0000 UTCI was surprised that a direct competitor thought that paying to be used as the default search engine is OK https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search
Hasty Pastry
2024-10-06 06:52:06 +0000 UTCI agree. YouTube is just another TV channel with mostly just corporatized content that makes almost all the views and traffic. It's all shit now.
The Hated One
2024-09-10 16:18:15 +0000 UTCYT is looking more and more like a legacy media company as time goes on, so maybe just embrace it: all the large popular channels with general appeal stay on the platform and have 15 minutes of ads for every 45 min of content. The rest of us can go on Odysee or other alternative platforms until we get big enough to sell out and have our own show on YT, which is now just TV.
Kitten
2024-09-06 17:13:39 +0000 UTCCurious what should be the ad/content ratio for YT to be profitable? Would there be any time at all for actual content? :)
JB
2024-09-06 15:55:42 +0000 UTCThat has been struck down now. Google is being punished for this so maybe that's a first sign of movings moving in a new direction.
The Hated One
2024-08-28 14:56:43 +0000 UTCMany individuals appear to be increasingly uncritical of the technology they use. Major tech companies have become incredibly wealthy by capitalizing on our data, yet a significant number of users remain unaware of this reality and continue to engage with their services without hesitation. It is troubling that a large percentage of people do not pause to reflect on why these companies are so profitable.
Veton
2024-08-24 15:52:51 +0000 UTCThat's what I heard, but I realized that I didn't have a source, so I skimmed some search results. It turns out that Alphabet doesn't break out operating expenses for its "search and other" business segment, though they did start stating revenues for individual units. YT brought in something on the order $15 B, maybe in 2020, so the question is if the cost of running it is over/under that. I'm biased by the data from around 2010 when YT was definitely losing money, so I had assumed that was still the case, but it sounds like nobody outside of Alphabet knows for sure.
Kitten
2024-08-24 13:21:30 +0000 UTCIs YouTube not profitable with all the ads it runs?
Chuck8541
2024-08-23 10:59:42 +0000 UTCShould be broken up, BUT not colluding together needs to be enforced. As mentioned in other videos, Apple & Google still worked together to keep Google search as a default option. That’s colluding together/cheating imo. Also, over the decades, after being broken up Ma Bell and other companies, slowly bought each other up, and reaquired each other. ie Still scratching each others back. And lastly, of course none of this matters for our privacy, because also as mentioned in other videos, the companies involved, as well as the main telecom backbone (in the US at least) is still dominated by NSA easedropping/wiretaps/surveillance. So, break’em up. Enforce no collusion, and continue fighting against mass surveillance.
Chuck8541
2024-08-23 10:56:26 +0000 UTCI think they need to be broken up, but they should be careful how it is done to make sure the unprofitable parts (I.e. YouTube) can continue to be subsidised by the parent company. I think the best way would be to make them sell off either their search or advertising business as these are both highly profitable and could stand on their own.
Tony Darcy
2024-08-22 21:18:55 +0000 UTCYouTube needs to be reformed anyway. Screw YouTube
Phil
2024-08-22 19:52:08 +0000 UTCThis might set us back years back to see Mozilla and YouTube disappear from Google subsidizing them but I rather do it right with privacy in mind and fair competition.
G C
2024-08-22 19:51:13 +0000 UTCThe largest and the second largest search engines are both owned by the same company. The problem is that YouTube couldn't survive if it wasn't being subsidized by Google, so I'm not sure how that would work.
Kitten
2024-08-22 15:28:36 +0000 UTC
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