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But market share of what? No one pays for web search so that's not really a market. Facebook has 90%+ market share of social media. Do they have a monopoly? G

But market share of what? No one pays for web search so that's not really a market. Facebook has 90%+ market share of social media. Do they have a monopoly? GitHub has a 90%+ market share of open source code hosting. Do they have a monopoly?

cpu_architect 5y ago
Markets are not necessarily based on money; they are about exchange. In the web search market, users exchange their attention for search results. I don’t know whether this kind of market dominance factors into the legal determination of monopoly, but conceptually I think it makes sense to say that Google has a monopoly in the web search market.
anders_p 5y ago
> But market share of what? No one pays for web search so that's not really a market. The customer in a web search isn't the USER. It's the BUISINESSES whose ads are placed on the search results page. THEY are certainly paying for the web search.
ping_pong 5y ago
If a business gets deindexed by Google or its search ranking drops, their income plummets. It's pretty obvious they are a monopoly and have monopolistic power.