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US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown

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“By definition, network effects crowd out competition,” says Mehta.

Mehta and Schmidtlein are still arguing about what kind of hypothetical world would have existed without Google’s exclusionary deals, and how drastic a market intervention that would justify. Google, you may remember, is pushing hard to focus purely on ending the exclusivity requirements of its deals while scrapping other proposals like data-sharing with other search engines — but Mehta expresses concerns that this approach “sells the remedies portion of this short.”

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