Geoff Manne on the Google Search Decision

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ICLE President Geoffrey A. Manne was quoted by National Review in a story about the recent U.S. District Court order in the Google search antitrust case. You can read the full piece here.

This evidence suggests that users choose Google because they like it, not because default agreements prevent them from switching to another search engine. As antitrust expert Geoffrey Manne has written, “The fact that Google has an 80 percent market share even on Windows devices, where Bing is the default search engine, demonstrates that consumers go out of their way to use Google because they believe it is the best option.”