What Casey Newton thinks about Google

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1. 30 Oct 2026, 00:51 UTC

   Our readingShrinking the web may benefit Google by making it more expensive for competitors.

   Their wordsMost challengers, however, will not — which demonstrates once again how shrinking the web can actually benefit Google, by making it ever more expensive to compete against it.

   ↗What Google and Reddit's bad days have in commonplatformer.news