Google search is a monopoly only in a regulatory/market leadership sense; they have what's called the incumbent's advantage, they were the first to provide a sa

Google search is a monopoly only in a regulatory/market leadership sense; they have what's called the incumbent's advantage, they were the first to provide a satisfactory solution and people don't have significant reason to switch to copy cats. Similar for Gmail. When we are moving to platforms like Android or Windows, yes, that's a strong technical monopoly entrenched by network effects, but it's no longer an internet product. Facebook is somewhat of a mixed bag, as they are recently finding out they have widely overestimated their "crap on the users" margin.