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Judge dismisses major arguments in Google antitrust case (www.theverge.com)
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The government’s antitrust case against Google just got significantly smaller. In a filing on Friday, a US district court judge dismissed several of the claims that the Department of Justice and a coalition of states brought against the company, including allegations that Google Search harms competing services.

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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

My chief complaint about DDG is excluding a term from a query rarely works. The "-" tag is not reliable.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I looked it up the other day and apparently it only gives less results with words flagged with "-". It's stupid because a few years ago there was syntax to exclude a term completely, so it's definitely possible to do. I don't understand why they just won't.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Last time I checked the documentation (more than a year ago) the '-' flag was supposed to work, but in practice the results can be unpredictable. Google honours the flag, but DDG is a bit of a mixed bag.

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