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I'm very curious about if there are any Googlers who raise their voice about how Google is maintaining its monopolistic status.
by roadbeats 9y ago
I'm very curious about if there are any Googlers who raise their voice about how Google is maintaining its monopolistic status.
- spacemanmatt 9y agoGoogle enjoys a classic natural monopoly. They had a category-winning search product when it mattered and their success has been built around that market lead. Microsoft has a long history of trying to tie them to monopoly abuse, for which Microsoft was sued by the DOJ. Not much has stuck in the U.S. but Microsoft has seen limited success in convincing (some argue lobbying or outright bribing) European officials to punish Google.
- gbacon 9y agoGoogle was created by a couple of grad students, a demographic not generally able to overcome hurdles of high fixed or startup costs. Attempting to slap the “natural monopoly” label on Google shows that the term is either meaningless or just bunk economics. Either way, it’s a useful foil in the ham fists of interventionists with a bad solution in search of problems.