Ep 722 | Sounds Awful Familiar…
Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher
Blaze Podcast Network
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So Google is in the middle of this court case with the European Union and they're appealing |
| 0:11.6 | their fine of $5 billion from the European Union for abusing its market power. |
| 0:19.6 | The EU of course has accused Google of using Android's success in the smartphone market |
| 0:25.1 | to make Google the default search engine. |
| 0:28.8 | But Google said, you know what, we've submitted evidence showing that the most common search |
| 0:35.8 | query on Bing, another search engine, by the way, is Google. |
| 0:45.1 | So people use Google because they choose to, not because they're forced to. |
| 0:51.9 | Now it doesn't say it in the story, but I believe that the number two search query |
| 0:59.6 | is chewing the fat. |
| 1:01.6 | That's right, this show. |
| 1:02.8 | They don't mention it in the court case. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm sure there's no reason to mention it because of their argument. |
| 1:08.4 | And so their argument is that even though people use Bing, they're searching for Google. |
| 1:13.3 | But even those people on Bing and Google are searching for chewing the fat. |
| 1:18.8 | Now of course, the case that the European Union is making, yeah, you made a deal with |
| 1:24.6 | the Android manufacturers to pre-install Google and to pre-install the Chrome web browser. |
| 1:31.9 | So you paid someone to make it the only pre-installed app, meaning only 1% of the people downloaded |
| 1:41.1 | a different search app. |
| 1:43.8 | It almost seems like that was a better business deal than Bing had. |
| 1:51.5 | But of course, I don't know. |
| 1:53.9 | And Google is just abusing its market power. |
| 1:57.6 | I just wish someone in the court would have recognized the number two searched query, |
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