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True, but even after narrowing this, you usually end up with 3/4 of these companies in competition. Messaging? FB vs Apple vs Google Ads? FB vs Google vs Amaz

• guerrilla 6y ago
  That's only if you rig it by choosing the market to make it turn out that way. They aren't a monopoly in every market they are in. They're monopolies in specific markets. No company has ever been a monopoly in general, except perhaps the Soviet state but even that isn't strictly true. Search? Google. Online retail? Amazon. Video hosting? Google.
• enumjorge 6y ago
  > are we now arguing Google has a monopoly over google.com? It gets a bit weird I don't know anyone who's arguing that. But I do see people arguing Google having a monopoly on search. In a lot of domains, a business can be created or destroyed entirely on their Google search rank.
  • twblalock 6y ago
    Even if Google search was broken off to a standalone company, it would still have a monopoly on search. The competition just isn't as good at search. Bing has been around for a long time and has managed to gain less than 10% of market share, even though almost everyone has heard of it.