Okay, there are other aspects to Google's business beside information retrieval and search, tho the point that the access is mostly unauthorized is valid. Altho

Okay, there are other aspects to Google's business beside information retrieval and search, tho the point that the access is mostly unauthorized is valid. Although the damage done by this is to some extent offset by Google's status essentially as a public utility: it universally provides a social good, "search", and the tax we pay is advertising. Your frustration for the "little guys" is mostly en pointe, since the damage done is rendered then mostly to competitors, rather than to customers, and the argument, true or no, that Google's search is "lightyears" ahead of other possible offerings, to some extent offsets the damage to consumers due to loss of competition through the possibly anti-competitive practices you highlight. So it seems the balance of good is in the favor of consumers of "search". I think this is the main force, rather than any "structural obstacles" to competition, which is the cause of the persistence of the status quo in this market. The thing about this which no one seems to see is that, since everyone is taking information dishonestly, there's a huge opportunity to actually "bring it into the light", do it honestly, and strike some kind of deals with content creators.