...curbing exclusivity, GenAI alone as market force is unlikely to break Google’s search dominance.

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...Judge Mehta’s willingness to reopen and review the default payment issues will become critical."

... really tries to get the job done in a very short amount of words. But users for some queries were asking it to go deeper on topics, and that's the answer to the "More" button question."

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The impact of those has been negligible (less than 1% change in Google’s market share) because the OEMs’ total dependence on Android to operate in the market rendered the contractual changes impotent. That dependence is as strong in the US as it is in the EU, so we can expect the same result.

At KGI we think a lot about concrete evidence. Seven years ago, the European Commission instituted contractual prohibitions in its Google Android case that were of a similar nature to those included by the court here.

After issuing a liability decision that relied extensively on claims about both the power of defaults and the size of Google’s revenue share payments, the court’s opinion does nothing to prevent Google from continuing to pay distributors for defaults.

DuckDuckGo's comments on the CMA's provisional decision is here assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68a5aa...

...hold back competitors, including in AI search. As a result, consumers will continue to suffer. We believe Congress should now step in to swiftly make Google do the thing it fears the most: compete on a level playing field."