Would it make the internet better? Probably.
Would YouTube get shittier if Google was broken up? I was under the understanding that YouTube is a loss leader service for Google, but I still think its one of the best social media sites on the web. Even when you consider the number of ads (that doesn’t affect a revanced user).
Not neccessarily. A spun off YouTube would still have YouTube premium and ad revenue. They could also sell user data to 3rd parties (I doubt Google currently does it on a large since it’s in their interest to have a better ad network than its competitiors). A move similar to Reddit’s with their API and exclusive search agreement or agreements to feed certain videos to AI would both fetch a higher price and upset the quality less since the vast majorty of videos watched are found through YouTube itself.
That all sounds shittier to me NGL
I really would prefer them to go after Amazon and Apple before Google, or at least all of them at once.
Google isn’t the only tech giant that needs smashing into pieces, Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, all need to be broken up. The tech industry shouldn’t be dominated by a few companies.
The techindustry shouldn’t be dominated by a few companies.FTFY
This article made my day a bit better. Google complaining how “radical” the changes proposed are is a sure indicator that they would likely cause some damage to them.
This seems to me to be a weak substitute for good privacy regulation.
Not sure why they mention AI search, as it’s practically non-existent right now.
As far as I know Google and Bing return AI results just above the usual web page results.
In addition AI LLM tools like Copilot (the mobile app) and Perplexity which cite their sources with links to websites really make it easier to weed out the BS from LLM answers, if you use them carefully. In my case, these tools replace search engines in 80% of the searches that I do.
The more I run searches on Google and queries through copilot the more my trust evolves.
I use the one latched into Skype more, though.
The one in Skype works quite well and is usually not blocked by companies firewalls… Or so I’ve heard…