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The problem with breaking up google is that the vast majority of revenue and profits comes from search ads. You can't break up search ads from search.

• darkpuma 7y ago
  Is youtube still being operated at a loss? If google runs a video sharing platform at or near a loss, funded by cash they get from search ads, then how can any other company possibly compete with them? By also running a video sharing platform at or near a loss? There is a very small number of companies that could conceivably do that. This is precisely why google needs to be broken up.
  • v7p1Qbt1im 7y ago
    By your logic there would be no YouTube. Or no user generated video at all. I imagine most people (including me) wouldn‘t like that.
    • darkpuma 7y ago
      > "By your logic there would be no YouTube." In it's current form, no, and I'm fine with that. I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. The status quo is not divine providence.
      • erklik 7y ago
        > I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. Could one even exist while Youtube does?
      • v7p1Qbt1im 7y ago
        > I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. What does that even mean? Clearly another platform of similar popularity would end up heaving the exact same problems.