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Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

This on the same day we read that Eric Schmidt quickly sold his house for $22.5 million. When he ran Novell Networks, my husband and I saw how Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft thugs destroyed their business through outright intimidation and we were cheered when he landed at Google. Consequently we realized the lesson he took from Novell was how to unleash the hounds of hell.

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Matt Stoller's avatar

Yup

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Peter V's avatar

God bless Biden's revival of anti-trust enforcement. Let's hope the next administration keeps it going.

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Jon May's avatar

So, is the irony in all this that the anti-trust action leading to the break up of MaBell made possible the creation Google which became our generations MaBell?

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Malavika Prasad's avatar

“If defaults matter a lot,” Weitzman wrote in The Power of Defaults early in the trial, “that suggests that consumers aren’t necessarily using Google because of its quality. But if defaults don’t matter that much, that strengthens Google’s claim that people use Google because it’s the best.”“

I’m not sure I fully follow this binary. Google is the best not because defaults don’t matter, but because, being the default, it accesses everyone’s data and has economies of scale incomparable to others search engines. And that’s why defaults matter. They add quality. Right? Being the default and being the best mutually reinforce each other.

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