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A few months ago, Google was forced to register on the Monopoly offenders list
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and go door-to-door in Mountain View to tell all the neighbors.
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After a judge ruled they violated the U.S.
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Sherman Act of 1890, Google was cutting unfair deals for its search engine to crush competition across the entire technology spectrum.
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They were paying 36% of ad revenue or $20 billion per year to dominate Apple devices, Mozilla Firefox was raking in cash to make Google the default,
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and a bunch of other companies' financial statements were being nourished by the teats of this illegal cash cow.
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Being added to the Monopoly wall of shame was a huge embarrassment for a company that once said, don't be evil, but like Microsoft, Walter White, Macbeth, and Gollum,
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their greed for power eventually backfired.
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But it appears, unlike Microsoft, that Google won't just get a slap on the wrist and possibly lose their most important piece of software, the Chrome web browser.
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It is November 20th, 2024, and you're watching the Code Report.
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It's a bit ironic that the Chrome web browser currently controls 66.6% of the browser market share, And Google Search even dominates on browsers that aren't Chrome,
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like Safari and Firefox, thanks to those illegal deals I mentioned earlier.
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But to Google's credit, they've invested millions upon millions of dollars into making web browsers awesome for end users.
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Their open source Chromium project is used by Microsoft's Edge browser, as well as alternative hipster browsers like Brave and Arc.
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And all this browser technology is offered for free out of the goodness of Google's heart.
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Well, as the old saying goes, when software is free, it means that you are the product.
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Chrome tracks your search queries, your browsing history, and online behavior, and all this data feeds back into its advertising business,
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where it can figure out exactly what type of consumer garbage to sell you and when.
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Not only does Google's ad revenue dwarf the competition, but Alphabet operates at a gross profit margin north of 50%, and they make an absolute killing selling their ads to the highest bidder.
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But the Chrome browser is critical to its success because it's the front door to everything Google offers,
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but apparently, Department of Justice lawyers are pushing to have Chrome split off or sold to a different company, with an estimated price tag of at least $20 billion.
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The only potential buyers would be companies like Meta, Apple, and Amazon, all of which are accused of running their own monopolies.
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If browsers start presenting new search engines as alternatives, like OpenAI's new search engine or DuckDuckGo,
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Google's 90% dominance of the search engine market will very likely start to deteriorate, but they're not going down without a fight.
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And their regulatory affairs VP said, the DOJ continues to push a radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues of the case.
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Things already look bad, but to make matters even worse, the leadership at the DOJ is about to change, and whoever takes over there is likely not going to be a big fan of Google.
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Now, Microsoft also became a certified monopoly 25 years ago
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when they bundled Internet Explorer with Microsoft Windows and suppressed other browsers like Netscape.
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Instead of breaking up the company, though, they just had to open up their APIs to third-party developers
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and stop entering exclusivity deals that were unfair to other browsers.
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They didn't even face a direct financial penalty.
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Microsoft is doing just fine today as a $3 trillion company, but if Google loses Chrome, I'm not so sure they have a moat to handle a hit like that.
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The good news is that it looks like they'll let Google keep Android, and we still don't know how their AI tech is going to play out long term.
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Their Gemini AI has become quite impressive, and has become so confident that it's now telling humans to die.
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But like I said, Chrome is also the front door to get people using Gemini.
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And when you close that front door, it could also hurt consumers, because Google will no longer have the motivation to invest in browser technology.
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Like just imagine the horrors if Chrome was handed off to a non-profit like Apache or the Linux Foundation.
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It might evolve into a diverse ecosystem of hyper-specialized browser distros.
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And who knows, they might even kill off Manifest version 3, which would allow ad blockers to keep working.
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And that means I couldn't use this opportunity right now to promote my new Linux and Dino courses on Fireship.io,
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which you can get access to as a pro member using this Black Friday discount for 40% off.
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Personally though, I think Google will fight this to the death, and I highly doubt Google will ever be forced to sell Chrome.
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The betting odds are currently at 13% because there's no way that Google gives up its precious.
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One browser to rule them all, one browser to find them, one browser to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
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This has been The Code Report, thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
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Il contesto: Google, Chrome e il rischio di scomposizione
Nel video analizzato, si discute di un caso legale cruciale per Google: la possibile separazione del browser Chrome a causa di accuse di monopolio. La narrazione spiega come Chrome, con il 66,6% di quote di mercato, sia la "porta d'ingresso" per i servizi di Google e come la sua vendita o scomposizione potrebbe cambiare il panorama tecnologico. Questo scenario realistico offre un'ottima opportunità per imparare l'inglese con i video, poiché combina vocaboli tecnici, argomenti attuali e una lingua parlata fluida.
Frasi e collocazioni utili da memorizzare
- "Cutting unfair deals": Fare accordi ingiusti. Esempio: "Google was cutting unfair deals to dominate the market."
- "Front door to everything": Porta d'ingresso a tutto. Usato per descrivere Chrome come accesso ai servizi di Google.
- "Raking in cash": Guadagnare molto denaro. Esempio: "Mozilla Firefox was raking in cash from Google."
- "Go down without a fight": Non arrendersi senza lottare. Google non intende perdere Chrome senza resistere.
- "Gross profit margin north of 50%": Margine di profitto lordo superiore al 50%. Una frase utile per parlare di economia aziendale.
La tua sfida di shadowing: imita e migliora
Per esercitarti con il shadowing in inglese, segui questi passaggi: riproduci un frammento del video (5-10 secondi), pausa e imita immediatamente la pronuncia, l'intonazione e il ritmo. Concentrati su frasi come "the Chrome web browser currently controls 66.6% of the browser market share" o "when software is free, it means that you are the product". Usa un shadowing site o semplicemente il video per ripetere l'esercizio. Per un risultato migliore, registra la tua voce e confrontala con l'originale: noterai differenze e potrai correggerti. Questo metodo, chiamato shadow speak o shadowspeak, è provato per migliorare la fluidità e la comprensione auditiva in inglese. Non aspettare: inizia ora con il tuo primo frammento!
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was forced · being nourished · Being added |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | they've invested · has become · has been |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.