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Mnuchin on Google and tech monopolies: 'You have to look at the power they have'
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Monday joined the growing chorus of government officials concerned about tech monopolies. When asked if Google is a monopoly, Mnuchin said, "These are issues that the Justice Department needs to look at seriously — not for any one company — but obviously as these technology companies have a greater and greater impact on the economy, I think that you have to look at the power they have," Mnuchin told CNBC's "Squawk Box." Mnuchin acknowledged that antitrust matters don't fall under his jurisdiction, but said someone ought to be looking.
His comments come on the heels of a "60 Minutes" segment on Google's unparalleled market share in online search. The Sunday night spot included an interview with Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founder of Yelp, which he said "would have no shot" if it were being built today.
Also at Bloomberg.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 22 2018, @01:16AM
First, you won't get the same quality of results.
How difficult is it [...] to switch to DuckDuckGo?
I've tried the alternatives and I'm thoroughly unimpressed.
For starters, I keep a boilerplate link to Google[1] on my Personal Toolbar and drag that into an empty Address Bar then edit it.
At a minimum, it saves me 1 needless pageload per search.
Other search engines don't make that easy.
In particular, when they return results, what's now in my Address Bar isn't something I can cut&paste into a comment nor use as a boilerplate for subsequent searches; it's completely useless.
In short: they suck (JavaScripting idiots).
[1] Actually, it's 4: basic; verbatim; by-date; images.
In that Google URL, I can specify the number of items it returns per page of results (1 -100).
I can also use e.g. start=4 to skip over the first few items, if they don't really apply.
I can specify e.g. inurl or intitle which can really help with highlighting|spotting my actual search string in the results.
I can specify only results from the last hour|day|week|month|year (h|d|w|m|y).
In those, I can specify &tbs=qdr:w,sbd:1 (the ,sbd:1 part is optional and will line up the results most-recent-first); 1 week shown.
Something I really like that no other has is the ability to use dots or hyphens in their Verbatim search to make phrases.[1]
N.B. Google's basic search (then, their ONLY type of search--before they dumbed down their basic search) used to do this and do it even better (WRT wildcards).
[2] S/N's comments engine is completely broken now WRT quote marks in hyperlinks, so the dots thing comes in handy here.
The others -could- add this stuff, but mostly they're stuck on stupid (JavaScript required, no less).
Now, add in Google's larger database.
...and don't even get me stared on Google's cached pages (where search strings can be can be highlighted) and chintz can be filtered out via strip=1.
For me, it's absolutely no contest.
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...and if you're scared shitless about privacy, use a proxy ferchrisake.
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