> Google might be at a point where no company ever stands a chance to compete with it. I'm not sure that this, in and of itself, is a problem. Someone has to b

> Google might be at a point where no company ever stands a chance to compete with it. I'm not sure that this, in and of itself, is a problem. Someone has to be the best, and google's product will still be the best even if you break the company up. It's not as if people will start using bing if search were broken out into a separate company; if anything I'd guess that it might increase market-share as that new company would put all their efforts into making search better rather than on broader initiatives that cut across google as a whole.