Opinion | The Google Antitrust Trial Is Really About the Future of A.I.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Google began as a small start-up with a great product, but it was also a beneficiary of federal government intervention.
50% : At the trial in Washington last week, the prosecution (which includes the federal as well as state governments) made clear that Google leveraged its money and power over the past decade to stifle competition, paying companies like Apple and Samsung billions of dollars to make Google the default search setting for their phones.
38% : In the end, Google beat Bing in part because it had a better product -- but also because it wasn't facing the nasty Microsoft of the 1990s, but rather a weakened and chastened Microsoft operating under federal oversight.

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