Interestingly, in a Senate and Congress deeply divided on party lines, the crackdown on Big Tech has bipartisan support. When you do a Google search, the result page very often carries ads. And between January 2017 and January 2018, traffic from Google Search to news sites rose by more than 25%. Every month, Google News and Google Search drive over 10 billion clicks to publishers’ websites, which drive subscriptions and significant ad revenue." Especially when the EU sees this as part of the larger war it is waging against Big Tech.

Source: Mint June 30, 2019 14:15 UTC