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They are a monopoly in search, right? Doesn't that place extra obligations on them, such as to not abuse their power against competitors or the public?

• anamax 5y ago
  It doesn't seem to.
• fault1 5y ago
  In what way are they monopoly on search? There are perfectly viable alternatives, some even from other trillion dollar companies (i.e bing).
  • Rastonbury 5y ago
    This is the unintentionally funniest comment I've seen all week (sorry googlers)
  • kataklasm 5y ago
    Google Search has a market share of over 85% [0], if that's not a monopolistic market share I don't know what is. 0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-share-of-search-engines/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-...