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If 92.47% of all stores in the USA were only Walmart then yes, there would be a national interest in determining how grocery store competition had been destroye
by riazrizvi 5y ago
If 92.47% of all stores in the USA were only Walmart then yes, there would be a national interest in determining how grocery store competition had been destroyed/denied and we would want to fix it.
In such a situation you would see a degradation of store product quality vs price. It might not be so clear with internet search because Google’s ascendence was coincident with innovation that it has hoovered up. But once you see competition restored, with things like the return of a Search API, or of more transparent ranking metrics, or of customizable ranking algorithms then you will begin to see what you are missing.
- jefftk 5y agoWhere are you getting 92.47%? Amazon's share of online shopping is well under that, no?
- charrondev 5y agoI’m guessing that number is in reference to googles dominance of the search market? I’m assuming they are less than that with regards to the advertisement market (I’m not super familiar with the space, but as I understand Facebook is a huge player there as well).
- bananabreakfast 5y agoWhat market though? There is no search market. It is a service given away for free. There is no such thing as a monopoly on something that does not cost anything.
- effingwewt 5y agoYou're kidding, right? the first damn near full page of google search is nothing but ads which they make a killing off of. If search wasn't profitable then ads in search and SEO wouldn't exist.
- kaibee 5y ago> There is no such thing as a monopoly on something that does not cost anything. This is the wrong way to think about it. How much would _Google_ be willing to pay to maintain that position? Well, Mozilla's primary source of revenue, is afaik, from having Google as the default search engine, so at least that much, for whatever percent of the browser market-share.
- freeflight 5y agoCompanies like Google and Facebook have pretty much cornered the market of the attention economy. The vast majority of web users have their eyes and attention directly guided by one of these [0]. If they decide you do not exist, then you will effectively cease existing for billions of people on the web because they do not know a web outside of Google/YouTube or the Facebook ecosystem. [0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...