Google's Antitrust case

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of a judge's ruling on Google's monopoly in search and the potential future of search engines.

A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter? There are many more questions than answers.

People in this episode

Hosts: Benedict Evans, Toni Cowan-Brown

Topics covered

• antitrust
• monopoly
• search engine
• technology
• business
• government

Keywords

• Google
• antitrust
• search engine
• Apple
• ChatGPT
• monopoly
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, Apple

Products: ChatGPT

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