{"id":1923,"date":"2019-06-02T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dazzlepop.net\/site\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2019-06-02T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T15:30:23","slug":"google-should-be-afraid-very-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dazzlepop.net\/site\/google-should-be-afraid-very-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Should Be Afraid. Very Afraid."},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new round of antitrust questions can\u2019t go well for the company. The culture has turned against tech since Google skated free in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the moment the U.S. technology superpowers surely knew was coming: The U.S. government is preparing to crawl all over Google to figure out whether it is an abusive monopolist. Google parent company Alphabet Inc. and the other tech giants should be quaking in their fleece vests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg News<\/a> and other news<\/a> organizations<\/a> reported late Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to open an investigation into Google\u2019s compliance with antitrust laws. If it goes forward, an investigation will no doubt be broad, lengthy, messy, and impossible for Google and its investors to predict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That should terrify Google and every other big technology company \u2014 because there\u2019s no guarantee that the antitrust Klieg light will turn on one company alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n