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The problem with that is that only a very small portion of employees actually work on the parts of Google that make money. Everything else is an experiment or h
by themagician 8y ago
The problem with that is that only a very small portion of employees actually work on the parts of Google that make money. Everything else is an experiment or hedge.
- jjeaff 8y agoI think it's not even a hedge or experiment. Everything else they do is smoke and mirrors to keep themselves out of the anti-trust cross hairs. If all they do is search, they have no competitors and are a defacto Monopoly. But as it stands, they can pretend they have many competitors by being in lots of different tiny businesses. Alphabet helps the narrative as well. Oh, Google is a monopoly? Well that's just one of the many businesses we own. Never mind that we lose money on everything else and sell fewer smartphones in a year that apple sells in less than a week.
- londons_explore 8y agoMonopolies don't work like that. You can be a monopoly in one industry even if you're small in another. Google was found to be a monopoly in 'licensable mobile operating systems' recently by the eu
- jjeaff 8y agoEU has completely different rules for monopolies. And the US is based in the US which accounts for around half it's revenue and probably an even higher percentage of its profit. They are most vulnerable in regards to US law.