Google Breakup Debate

The cluster focuses on discussions advocating for or debating the breakup of Google or Alphabet into separate companies, such as splitting Search, YouTube, Android, Ads, and Cloud, to address monopoly concerns and improve competition.

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Sample Comments

nunez Oct 31, 2024 View on HN

How would breaking up Google fix this?

bendergarcia Jun 8, 2021 View on HN

I think it could be done depending on how you slice it. For example you could definitely put YouTube as its own separate entity YouTube and google play together, as an entertainment company. Gmail plus drive and calendar as a productivivity company, web search as it’s own company. One thing that could make this easy would be to remove the google identity as a single company for SSO into all types of services. Then all the other companies could have sign in with FB Microsoft LinkedIn etc. google

jdietrich Aug 16, 2020 View on HN

Spin off the major parts of their business into genuinely separate companies - search, cloud compute, advertising, SaaS, Android and Chrome. With Google as a monolith, it's far too easy for them to bundle products and cross-subsidise unprofitable parts of their business to achieve dominance. Those independent companies can make deals that are mutually beneficial, but they'll have to answer to their shareholders and the FTC.

zajd Nov 28, 2019 View on HN

This is why Google should be broken up. If you let giant megacorps keep vertically integrating into insanity, of course this sort of thing will happen. Google is like thousands of companies in one. Youtube, Android, Search, Ads, Cloud, Drive, Gmail, etc should all be separate businesses.

raahul_rahl Sep 10, 2024 View on HN

Is Google breaking up into multiple parts?

scotty79 Dec 24, 2022 View on HN

I wonder if splitting Google into two companies could help. One doing just search and one doing just ads, with the condition that payments between them must be fixed and independent of the volume of anything.

yucky Jul 15, 2022 View on HN

Breaking Google into several companies would be ideal. Android, Ads/Search, Youtube, & Nest as separate companies. And then Chrome, Cloud and all their other steaming garbage could be their own mishmash.

mathnmusic Oct 24, 2021 View on HN

Google should be broken up into 5 parts: Search/Adwords/Mail/Drive, Android, Chrome, Maps & GCP.

throw_m239339 Jul 28, 2020 View on HN

Maybe Google's search business and ad business should be broken up...

KSPAtlas Mar 26, 2022 View on HN

Why hasn't Google been split up yet?