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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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 45 zinnen en 863 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:05. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 211 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. Slechts 79% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 minder gangbare woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
- monopoly /məˈnɑpəli/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — monopolie. A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service…
- dominate /ˈdɑ.məˌneɪt/ (werkwoord) — domineren, overheersen. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power.
- impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — indrukwekkend, imposant. Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
- gross /ɡɹoʊs/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — bruto. remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- penalty /ˈpɛn.əl.ti/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — straf. A legal sentence.
- horror /ˈhɒɹ.ə/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — gruwel. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- odd /ɑd/ (bijvoeglijk naamwoord) — vreemd, merkwaardig. Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- whoever /huˈɛvɚ/ — wie ook (dan). Who ever: an emphatic form of who.
- discount /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — korting. A reduction in price.
- agenda /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — schema, programma. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
- darkness /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — duisternis, donkerheid. The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
- default /dɪˈfɔlt/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — niet-nakoming. The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- estimate /ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — schatting. A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
- margin /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒɪn/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — kantlijn, marge. The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- spectrum /ˈspɛktɹəm/ (zelfstandig naamwoord) — spectrum. A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
- figure out (werkwoord) — uitvogelen, er achter komen. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- give up (werkwoord) — zich overgeven. To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).
- go down (werkwoord) — afdalen. To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
- take over (werkwoord) — overnemen. To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 11 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, aren't, couldn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, nourish /ˈnʌɹ.ɪʃ/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: monopoly /məˈnɑpəli/, regulatory /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als monopoly, dominate, impressive.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was forced · being nourished · Being added |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | they've invested · has become · has been |
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.