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Judge dismisses major arguments in Google antitrust case (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by clgoh to c/technology
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The government’s antitrust case against Google just got significantly smaller. In a filing on Friday, a US district court judge dismissed several of the claims that the Department of Justice and a coalition of states brought against the company, including allegations that Google Search harms competing services.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using DDG for awhile now. I have zero complaints about it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My chief complaint about DDG is excluding a term from a query rarely works. The "-" tag is not reliable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I looked it up the other day and apparently it only gives less results with words flagged with "-". It's stupid because a few years ago there was syntax to exclude a term completely, so it's definitely possible to do. I don't understand why they just won't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Last time I checked the documentation (more than a year ago) the '-' flag was supposed to work, but in practice the results can be unpredictable. Google honours the flag, but DDG is a bit of a mixed bag.