Google Uses Bizarre Tactics To Dominate Rivals As Well As Confuse Their Customers, Search Engine Claims (Goog)

From The Independent:

Google controls the duck.com spider web address, pregnant users searching for its challenger DuckDuckGo are diverted dorsum to Google

For many people, Google is the internet. It straightaway dominates well-nigh all aspects of our online lives, from how nosotros search for information, to how nosotros navigate from i house to another. But the road Google has taken to attain this supremacy has been ruthless, illegal together with occasionally unconventional.

For 85 per cent of smartphone users that stimulate got Google's Android mobile operating system, the slew of apps that come upward pre-installed on the device are ofttimes owned past times Google. This includes the pop Chrome spider web browser together with Google search engine, pregnant users are forced to download competing apps through the Google Play Store if they desire to purpose them. But information shows that exclusively 1 per cent of people always download a challenger search app together with exclusively 10 per cent download a novel browser.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 record $5 billion fine from the European Commission over Google's uncompetitive Android practices yesterday will precurse an unbundling that volition no longer strength smartphone makers to send devices amongst pre-installed Google apps. It was the largest punishment always levied against a unmarried fellowship together with comes inward the midst of a geo-political merchandise conflict betwixt the U.S.A. together with Europe. The ruling fifty-fifty prompted U.S.A. President Donald Trump to wade inward amongst one of his inflammatory tweets.

But competitors to Google stimulate got since revealed the unorthodox practices that Google continues to purpose to keep its near-monopolistic position.

Google rival DuckDuckGo, an internet privacy theatre whose products include a search engine together with a browser, responded to the European Union cleft downwards inward a serial of tweets revealing how Google has acted to assert its search dominance. Examples include preventing the DuckCuckGo search engine from beingness added to Chrome on Android, spell featuring the Chrome widget prominently on most Android builds.

"We stimulate got felt its effects outset manus for many years together with has led straight to us having less marketplace portion on Android vs [Apple's] iOS," the privacy-focussed search engine stated.

"Their anti-competitve search demeanour isn't express to Android. Every fourth dimension nosotros update our Chrome browser extension, all of our users are faced amongst an official-looking dialogue bespeak them if they'd similar to revert their search settings together with disable the entire extension."...

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