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Yelp exists? Just because a service is popular does not make it a monopoly. Google should be free to deal with their properties as they see fit. If there is a

• yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
  > Just because a service is popular does not make it a monopoly. True; what makes them a monopoly is that they use their dominance in one market (web search) to make themselves "unfairly" dominant in other areas (maps). > If there is a degradation of quality, that gives others such as Microsoft, Yelp, etc the ability to capitalize. Except that others are handicapped by Google. Example: Average customer wants to look up a business. So, they open their browser (Chrome, 70% of market) and search, which will go to Google because that's the default (ironically, using their dominance of browsers to push their web search), and search for the business, which will then pop up a nice big box at the top showing results from Google Maps. Of course, maybe Google Maps has bad data and Yelp has better data, but since Yelp isn't a Google product it'll be at best somewhere down in the normal web results, not pushed front and center. Monopolies are not about market share; they're about what you do with that market share.