> I would say this is more likely driven by part of a bigger package deal with Google Search Placement and Google Cloud Services.

Can the DOJ and FTC look into this?

Google shouldn't be able to charge a fee on accessing every registered trademark in the world. They use Apple get get the last 30% of "URL Bars", I mean Google Search middlemen.

Searching Anthropic gets me a bidding war, which I'm sure is bleeding Google's competition dry.

We need a "no bare trademark (plus edit distance) ads or auto suggest" law. It's made Google an unkillable OP monster. Any search monopoly or marketplace monopoly should be subject to not allowing ads to be sold against a registered trademark database.