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Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules (apnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by gytrash to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies..."

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[–] Eggyhead@kbin.run 57 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Websites and articles that have nothing to do with search or Google have to be designed specifically for Google’s search algorithm. I think that’s pretty crazy.

[–] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 months ago

~~Search Engine Optimization~~ Google Optimization

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Not to mention googles push for an identification standard that would effectively ban any non chromium browser from all major websites.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Interestingly, SEO is increased with semantic HTML which benefits people who need screen readers since it is easier to parse. But, also. Fuck google

[–] sandbox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, people play a lot of weird tricks with semantic tagging for SEO, making them less useful to screen reader users. Not to mention that Google has a very specific, very limited interpretation of the tags, so a lot of tags that would be useful for accessibility are unused or misused.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My information must be old, but what you are talking about still better than just span of div of div of span of div right? People still try to have any amount of meaningful structure?

[–] sandbox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Not really - what they’ll do is put in the date tag some much more recent date than the date of publication to try and push the content towards search engines to make it more likely to show up, lie about stock levels (say some product is in stock in the metadata, but say on the page it isn’t in stock), cram keywords into metadata, stuff like that. I don’t think it’s really an improvement.