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If you use different search engines, you will get different responses to your searches. Google has found a way to limit all searches by all search engines to things that it (Google) deems worthy of locating. Some websites are never shown because of this.

Now the courts are involved in fairness in Internet searches.


Google goes to trial in biggest US challenge to tech power in decades



https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/11/landmark-google-antitrust-trial-doj
The trial in a landmark antitrust case against Google is scheduled to start on Tuesday in Washington district court over charges of monopolizing the online search space.

The suit, filed by the US justice department in 2020, represents the biggest legal challenge to the power and influence of big tech in decades, and could be a bellwether in the fight against the industry's monopolies.

"The Google search trial will be hugely consequential for our digital world where the outcome will determine how millions of Americans access and use the internet," said Katherine Van Dyck, senior counsel at the American Economic Liberties Project, a non-profit that filed a motion to make court proceedings public due to the importance of the case.
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