google.com isn't a public place, it also isn't a particularly valuable plot of "land" aside the private goliath built upon it. The fact people go to Google giv

google.com isn't a public place, it also isn't a particularly valuable plot of "land" aside the private goliath built upon it. The fact people go to Google gives them their power to extort business for ranking. But thats because Google remains valuable - people use it because it works, or at least because of inertia that nothing is remotely better yet, and so long as people still value the search companies can do the cost benefit analysis to know if paying the rent is worth it. And its fortunate the only people who really care about search ranking are those trying to make money off it. There are a lot more egregious crimes being committed in the privacy space by Alphabet or by rent seekers across the economy than a business making money as a parasite off other businesses trying to make money.