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I wish more people thought about this. Google isn't a charity, and even if their leaders really were benevolent they wont be there forever.

• bad_user 16y ago
  No, Google is a company subject to the forces of a free market ... competition, choice, advancements in technology, natural selection. An economy where everybody gets their products / utilities from charities ... is called communism ;)
  • loewenskind 16y ago
    True but the only part they are actually subject to "the forces of a free market" is advertising, where they exhibit monopolistic behaviors (e.g. phone browsers being locked into google search). Every where else can be a "loss leader" for them which is extremely dangerous.
    • jokermatt999 16y ago
      They really don't seem all that monopolistic to me. A company that has a "Data Liberation Front (http://www.dataliberation.org/ http://www.dataliberation.org/) allowing you to switch out of their services at any time is hard to argue as a monopoly. Furthermore, I can search Yahoo or Bing from my Droid just fine, the only thing that's "locked in" is the phone wide search, which I'd say is somewhat reasonable. You aren't forced to use that feature even if you're using Android. I agree that people should be wary of them, but calling their behavior monopolistic is stretching it.