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Google is facing it over the search engine shenanigans
Microsoft & Amazon are facing it over cloud computing
what else
It's almost like you make a product that everyone wants to use and your competition uses legislation to claw back market on an inferior product.
Google cloud is nowhere near as good as Amazon's or Microsoft's. Microsoft's search engine is nowhere near as good as Google's.
That being said, some of the business practices that these guys use to stay on top are shady as fuck.
Google search turned to shit years ago
Microsoft's search engine is nowhere near as good as Google's.
I don't know... Googles search was clearly better five years ago. They clearly still have dominant market share, but they have been shitting up search results the last few years in the name of monetization a lot. I haven't found their results to be better than bing, at least not by a lot.
Their algorithm is still good, as if I use a search engine that sources from Google, the results are typically what I would expect. But from Google itself, the results have sponsored content barfed all over actual results and it takes a little effort to find what I was searching for.
I have gone on to alternative search engines and been so much happier. I will fallback on Google when I need to, but it's been extremely rare.
Microsoft's search engine is nowhere near as good as Google's.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but in my experience Bing results are pretty good.
I use neither Google or Bing directly, but other search engines that sources them, so I do not have to deal with ads, tracking or AI bullshit. Thus I can't say anything about the actual user experience of using Bing vs Google. But for the search results, Bing is just as good if not better.
The irony.
They should both be broken up into smaller companies.
Something about stones and glass houses might apply here... Or is it kettles and pots?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft and Amazon (AMZN.O) have faced mounting scrutiny around the world over their dominance of the cloud computing industry, with regulators in Britain, the European Union, and the U.S. probing their market power.
In a letter submitted to the CMA, Google said Microsoft’s licensing practices unfairly discouraged customers from using competitor services, even as a secondary provider alongside Azure.
“With Microsoft’s licensing restrictions in particular, UK customers are left with no economically reasonable alternative but to use Azure as their cloud services provider, even if they prefer the prices, quality, security, innovations, and features of rivals,” Google said in its letter to the CMA.
Speaking to Reuters, Google Cloud Vice President Amit Zavery criticised Microsoft’s practices, and said his company was committed to a multi-cloud approach, in which customers could easily move between providers depending on their needs.
Asked why Amazon, which boasts a larger share of the cloud market than Microsoft, did not pose a similarly anticompetitive risk, Zavery said AWS consumers were not facing the same restrictions.
Google made six recommendations to the CMA, including forcing Microsoft to improve interoperability for customers using Azure and alongside other cloud services, and banning it from withholding security updates from those that switch.
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The in-fighting continues.
