<story><title>U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-states-file-updated-antitrust-complaint-against-alphabets-google-2021-11-13/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>As more data comes out about Google, Apple, Amazon, one simple underlying thing becomes clear: a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace &lt;i&gt;while also being a participant&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s App Store insider knowledge lets them discover popular apps, then boot them off the platform when they decide to compete. Amazon sees what products are successful and profitable, then makes knock-offs which they promote over the originals. And now, reading into this, Google is manipulating their ad markets using inside knowledge.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s all very profitable.&lt;p&gt;If we cannot trust large companies to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; abuse this kind of power, then they should be prevented by law from playing both sides. This may result in the breakup of some very large companies, akin to the 1934 Air Mail Act that broke up Boeing.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-states-file-updated-antitrust-complaint-against-alphabets-google-2021-11-13/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaycebasques</author><text>&amp;gt; The lawsuit also highlights Google&amp;#x27;s use of a secret program dubbed &amp;quot;Project Bernanke&amp;quot; in 2013 that used bidding data to give its own ad-buying an advantage. For example, in a 2015 iteration of the program, Google allegedly dropped the second-highest bids from publishers&amp;#x27; auctions, accumulated money into a pool and then spent that money to inflate only the bids belonging advertisers who used the company&amp;#x27;s Google Ads. They otherwise would have likely lost the auctions, the states alleged.&lt;p&gt;Can someone rephrase this and possibly explain like I&amp;#x27;m five? I&amp;#x27;m not following the mechanics...</text></comment>