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Google has probably killed more competition and potential competition than any company in history. Further, they now are so heavily biased in results in so many
by nwienert 6y ago
Google has probably killed more competition and potential competition than any company in history. Further, they now are so heavily biased in results in so many ways, they are actively harming consumers.
By slowly cornering off huge areas of the web, tilting favor, inlining answers into search, releasing free competitors (assistants, cloud, email, maps, docs, travel, shop, the list goes on and on) they’ve flat out killed more potential business than any other company I can think of.
I actually think about this often, if Google had real competition I really believe we’d be in a renaissance. Instead, too much power fell into one company and they’ve literally choked out countless startups and small businesses. The scope of their anti-competitive behavior is hard to fathom.