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I don't think they have any more influence than media conglomerates like Comcast, who owns NBC, and who effectively turned the attention from net neutrality to
by studentrob 7y ago
I don't think they have any more influence than media conglomerates like Comcast, who owns NBC, and who effectively turned the attention from net neutrality to hatred of Facebook, Amazon, and Google. It is rather ridiculous to argue that Google, who provides free services, is any more of a monopoly than broadband ISPs.
- dewey 7y agoIf you look at adtech there’s really only Google and Facebook so it’d call this very close to a monopoly. This is also not a free service so you are only comparing a small subset of Google services which are mostly built to fuel the ad part (Search and YouTube being the biggest one probably)
- akarki15 7y ago> If you look at adtech there’s really only Google and Facebook so it’d call this very close to a monopoly. Please look up the definition of monopoly before throwing the word. Earlier part of your own sentence refutes the claim that google has a monopoly in ad. Further numbers: https://adage.com/article/digital/duopoly-loses-share-ad-spend/316692 https://adage.com/article/digital/duopoly-loses-share-ad-spe...
- dewey 7y agoI‘m well aware of the textbook definition of a monopoly. Thanks for your concern. I said „close to a monopoly“ to refer to the big market share of either of them, which is clearly the case as also written in your linked article.
- justinclift 7y agoAren't they in different leagues though? Google has global impact, whereas Comcast (etc) are mostly US?