Google has posted its post-trial debrief document for the DOJ trial that talks about many different things, including stating that its search quality continues to improve. We covered its statement that Microsoft Bing Search had search quality issues earlier.
Greg Sterling posted about this on X, writing, “Google boldly claims in its “default search” antitrust post-trial brief that search quality has improved, not degraded.”
It is written throughout the document, but here are some clauses:
In the introduction paragraphs, Google wrote:
Google added:
Google also wrote in this document that the “Barriers to Entry Are Not Significant and Are Falling Rapidly.”
This is worth a read if you have time over the weekend, you can download it over here.
People are asking me what this “IS score” is, well, Danny Goodwin mentioned it over here and it refers to Google’s own internal “information satisfaction” score.
Forum discussion at X.
