For two decades, Google Search has been unstoppable. Invincible. So completely dominant that would-be competitors often couldn’t even get financing, because investors didn’t see the point in trying. But earlier this year, a judge declared that Google’s power, and the way the company wields it, was an illegal monopoly. And now the US Department of Justice has to find a way to undo it.
We are trying to determine whether any of these proposals are likely to come true; there is still a batch of the legal process that remains before anything here is final, and what it would mean for Google and the Internet if they did so. We also tried to guess what the incoming Trump administration might think about all of this and how the case might change in the coming months.
If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started, starting with Google and the DOJ:
And in news about artificial intelligence and devices:
And in the lightning round: