Three ways to break Google's monopoly and put consumers first

Nationalise search as a public utility, spin-off YouTube to create competition, and open-source GAM to avoid manipulation...

Cassandra was a princess of Troy. The God Apollo became infatuated and gave her the gift of prophecy. When she refused his advances, he cursed her so no-one would believe her predictions.

Cassandra foresaw many tragic events, most notably the fall of Troy and her own murder, but when she tried to warn her people, she was ignored and mocked as mad.

Today, Cassandra Complex is defined as an individual's accurate prediction of a crisis that is ignored or dismissed, and it is studied by psychologists.

I’ve studied it too, baffled why the news industry blindly ignored my warnings about Google for a decade, leading me to be rejected, demoted, and once, physically assaulted.

Now, the Google’s dirty laundry is being aired in public in court and people are becoming wise after the event.

It’s no longer a question of whether Google will fall, but rather how and when.

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