Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-24.
Google’s nightmare: How a search spinoff could remake the web Tags: tech, web, google, search, monopoly, economics
There’s clearly something tempting about a web index somehow separated from Google. It always felt like a natural monopoly and so a type of public service. Now that push arrives a tad late so the impacts are unclear. Overall I still think this would be a net positive if there are more web search companies built onto such an index.
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