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The break-up of Google is long overdue

10 October 2024

2:01 AM

10 October 2024

2:01 AM

It’s innovative, it generates huge wealth, and it offers great products for completely nothing. The lobbyists for Alphabet, the parent company of Google, will make plenty of familiar arguments about why the internet giant should be left intact. And yet, as the US Department of Justice pushes for it to be broken up, it is going to be hard to convince anyone it can carry on as it is.

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