Today’s links The paradox of choice screens: What does a post-Google world look like? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I’ve been. Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Colophon: All the rest. The paradox of choice screens (permalink) It’s official: the DOJ has won its case, and Google is a convicted monopolist. Over the next six months, we’re gonna move into the “remedy” phase, where we figure out what the court is going to order Google to do to address its illegal monopoly power: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve That’s just the beginning, of course. Even if the court orders some big, muscular remedies, we can expect Google to appeal (they’ve already said they would) and that could drag out the case for years. But that can be a feature, not a bug: a years-long appeal will see Google on its very best behavior, with massive, attendant culture changes inside the company. A Google that’s fighting for its life in the appeals court isn’t going to be the kind of company that promotes a guy whose strategy for increasing revenue is to make Google Search deliberately worse, so that you will have to do more searches (and see more ads) to get the info you’re seeking: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan It’s hard to overstate how much good stuff can emerge from a company that’s mired itself in…Pluralistic: The paradox of choice screens (12 Aug 2024)