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Because Google has not changed the structure of the market, only which player sits in that position.
by closeparen 7y ago
Because Google has not changed the structure of the market, only which player sits in that position.
- robbrown451 7y agoBut when you advertised in a newspaper, you didn't have to fear the newspaper suddenly becoming your competitor and then refusing to run your ads. Well, I suppose that might've happened if you were another publication or something. But it was relatively rare. Also, newspapers weren't the only way people advertised, for instance the yellow pages was a big deal when I was a kid. (and it was the subject of a Ralph Nader article calling it out as a monopoly: https://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2004/08/fort_dix_vetera.html https://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2004/08/fo... )
- bagacrap 7y agoGoogle refused to run someone's ads? When I search for "cloud hosting" the first two things I see are ads for IBM and Lenovo. The third hit is an ad for Google.
- robbrown451 7y agoRight but what about having a product in an app store and then next thing you know Apple or Google has their own product that competes with it.
- marcosdumay 7y agoYour comment is about the ads market. The GGP is about the search market. Search is something that didn't even exist back then (yellow pages were the nearest thing, but still way different), so there is no way to claim that the structure was kept the same. Nobody could take your store out of its physical location and make it unreachable back then.