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Why the US government is gunning for Google

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 2020, the US Justice Department sued Google, alleging it illegally monopolised the online search market. The US government won, and is now threatening to break up the tech giant, with wide-reaching implications for us all. 

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Host: Manveen Rana. 

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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants,

0:06.2

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

0:13.0

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0:16.8

global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other

0:19.8

transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.

0:26.4

BP.com slash and not all.

0:30.4

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1:01.2

From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

1:07.0

I'm Manveen Rana. Back in 1998, in 1998, two computer scientists from Stanford University, Sergei Bryn and Larry Page, had an idea.

1:30.0

I mean, in history you have never had access to just you know pretty much all the

1:36.7

world's information in seconds and we have that now and to make it really

1:41.6

useful you have to have a good way of finding whatever it is that you want.

1:49.0

You could have any bit of information, however niche or obscure, at your fingertips in seconds.

1:58.6

It was an idea that caught on.

2:01.3

26 years since the birth of Google. It's such a vital part of our everyday lives that

2:07.0

to Google has become a verb in the English language.

2:13.0

But is that healthy?

2:15.0

In a landmark case in the US, the Tech Giant is being questioned about its monopoly over online searches.

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