Google Monopoly Debate

A far worse monopoly than Google is going to solve your monopoly problem?

What does Google have a monopoly over?

Google is massively bigger than Yahoo or Bing. They have or are close to having monopoly power in search (It doesn't take 100% to be a monopoly for antitrust purposes). When a company achieves that much dominance in a market, regulators generally frown on them using that dominance to gain power in other markets.

I mean, of course they can. They're Google. What are you going to do, stop using Chrome and searching with Google and using Gmail and buying AdWords and....etc?This is what happens when you have a monopoly.

Google is, and acts exactly like a monopoly in search. They intentionally degrade the effectiveness of their search to support their otyer business. Even when they are trying, they have been getting progressively worse at finding the real content, and many times put the same 5 garbage spam sites into the top 5 positions for a huge variety of searches. They even use their monopoly position to bully the entire world into degenerating all online content into a homogeneous soup of gpt-3 generated gi

Seems like a way for Google to increase their monopoly =)

Think about it this way: there are plenty of products and services that you can't advertise anywhere else but on google search, so Google has a monopoly on that. This monopoly exists because of Google's abusive practices to prevent competition from entering the market it wants to own.

Monopoly on what? google.com? Android?Google's power comes from its (a) technical prowess and (b) popularity of some of its products. Many of their products get a large advantage just from being on their own internal platform.But I can't think of a product of theirs that doesn't have a strong competitor. Search is the strongest they have, and the underlying problem's getting a bit simpler (I believe it's substantially cheaper now to pay for the infrastructure f

The idea is that Google has a monopoly in search. Monopoly is generally viewed as not a good thing. One thing you can do when you have a monopoly in one market is to try and extend it into another market. This is what Google is doing by showing their shopping results for searches. This would be viewed as acceptable for, say, Bing to do because Bing doesn't have a search monopoly.

Google is a monopoly, they don't have to be good.