How the DOJ plans to interrupt up Google and promote Chrome

For twenty years, Google Search has been unstoppable. Invincible. So completely dominant that would-be opponents typically couldn’t even get funding, as a result of buyers didn’t see the purpose in making an attempt. However earlier this 12 months, a decide declared that Google’s energy, and the best way the corporate wields it, was an unlawful monopoly. And so now the US Division of Justice has to determine learn how to undo it.

We attempt to determine whether or not any of those proposals are more likely to come to go — there’s nonetheless a lot of authorized course of left earlier than something right here is remaining — and what it might imply for Google, and the web, in the event that they did. We additionally attempt to guess what the incoming Trump administration may take into consideration all this, and how the case might change within the subsequent few months.

If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we talk about on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Google and the DOJ:

And in AI and gadget information:

And within the lightning spherical: