It’s monopoly and anti-competitive business practices all the way down. That’s Google’s moat and has been for a decade. Under any sane regulatory regime they n

It’s monopoly and anti-competitive business practices all the way down. That’s Google’s moat and has been for a decade. Under any sane regulatory regime they never would have been allowed to get to this point but that didn’t happen. The only problem here is they aren’t going to be able to replicate that for the next big tech shift. The moat isn’t “the product” the only great product they had was the search engine and that doesn’t make any money. The moat came when they were allowed to use it to dominate markets in advertising, mobile, email platforms, and so on.