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Google is, and acts exactly like a monopoly in search. They intentionally degrade the effectiveness of their search to support their otyer business. Even when t
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Google is, and acts exactly like a monopoly in search. They intentionally degrade the effectiveness of their search to support their otyer business. Even when they are trying, they have been getting progressively worse at finding the real content, and many times put the same 5 garbage spam sites into the top 5 positions for a huge variety of searches. They even use their monopoly position to bully the entire world into degenerating all online content into a homogeneous soup of gpt-3 generated gibberish and to push products like amp.
They are a duopoly in mobile OS, and a monopoly on browsers -- which they use to bully the world into altering the internet to their benefit and reduce the effectiveness of ad and tracking blockers.
Facebook have such domination over the social graph, that they intentionally sever vertices, and then charge for the privilege of having them reconnected. The precise opposite of what they claim their service is for.
AWS has competitors for now, but google and microsoft are only able to half-compete by leveraging their other monopolies.