Google has posted its post-trial debrief doc for the DOJ trial that talks about many various issues, together with stating that its search high quality continues to enhance. We lined its assertion that Microsoft Bing Search had search quality issues earlier.
Greg Sterling posted about this on X, writing, “Google boldly claims in its “default search” antitrust post-trial temporary that search high quality has improved, not degraded.”
It’s written all through the doc, however listed below are some clauses:
The undisputed proof contradicts any assertion that Google has wielded monopoly energy by degrading search high quality or search advertisements high quality under aggressive ranges. As Plaintiffs acknowledge, Google is the very best high quality basic search engine within the U.S. and has been since earlier than Plaintiffs declare it started violating Part 2. FOF ¶ 1081. Google’s search high quality has repeatedly improved over its twenty-five years as a search engine as Google has repeatedly innovated. FOF ¶¶ 79-106, 112-241, 695-760. And Google unceasingly strives to raised its search high quality, yearly setting targets to enhance its search high quality as measured by IS rating.
Within the introduction paragraphs, Google wrote:
These improvements have tremendously improved search high quality and powered extraordinary will increase in search output—all without charge to shoppers.
The proof conclusively established that Google is the very best high quality, hottest search engine in america, with the very best basic search engine promoting monetization.
Google added:
Google’s choice to protect options which have a constructive influence on search high quality whereas providing customizable settings to go well with customers’ privateness preferences is a reasoned enterprise judgment in line with a aggressive market, not a degradation of product high quality that evidences monopoly energy.
Google additionally wrote on this doc that the “Obstacles to Entry Are Not Important and Are Falling Quickly.”
That is price a learn when you have time over the weekend, you may obtain it over here.
Individuals are asking me what this “IS rating” is, effectively, Danny Goodwin talked about it over here and it refers to Google’s personal inside “data satisfaction” rating.
Discussion board dialogue at X.
