Sinners are grinners as judge spares monopolist Google

#374: The verdict shields its billions, validates AI content theft, and shortens the timeline to Google Zero. It's brutal as usual for publishers...

Who’d have thought it would come down to a frog and two lily pads.

Google’s boiling frog playbook crushed publishing, suffocated the open web, and bent advertising to craft an enduring multi-billion-dollar monopoly.

Now an antitrust judge says that’s barely worth a penalty because search is old tech, AI is the future - and competition has already leapt to…