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Better Offline. Yeah. In the last episode, I went over why Google's monopoly is such a problem, and why monopolies are a form of societal cancer, and in this episode, I'll go over what my app and next to Google after an antitrust trial.

And by the time you hear

this, it'll have been a few weeks since Judge Yat META ruled that Google was an illegal monopoly in search

and online advertising. The next phase of this saga, though not including any appeals, will decide

what penalties will come. Although it will be several months and most likely several years before we learn exactly

what happens to Google, it's clear the company sits on a dangerous precipice. In addition to a monetary

penalty, which is fairly likely, and which could certainly be in the billions of dollars,

Judge Meta will likely force Google to undertake some action that would effectively end its

monopoly status, or at the very

least support more competition. And we'll get to those in the second. But it's worth noting that we need

to talk about how we got here. For this, I'm going to be heavily relying on Judge Meta's 300-page

ruling. Judge Meta didn't concern himself with how Google got big, because

in antitrust law, there's nothing really prohibiting you from achieving dominance by being

good and better than the competition. And to be fair, for the first couple of decades, Google

was genuinely superior to any alternative. This was evidenced by its early reviews, with Danny

Sullivan, who now works for Google as a guy who occasionally pretends to care about what reporters think. But at the time he wrote for Search Engine Watch,

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