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Does Google have enough of the search engine market share to be considered a monopoly?
by pauldenton 3y ago
Does Google have enough of the search engine market share to be considered a monopoly?
- stalfosknight 3y agoI think it's absurd to say something is a "monopoly" when clearly there are plenty of alternatives. I'm old enough to remember the pre-Google internet and how the search engine crown passed between Altavista, Hotbot, Lycos, Yahoo! and probably others. Google did not come down from the heavens heralded by angels a fully formed tech hegemony all at once. The free market made it dominant over time because free people continue to freely choose Google. Google is not blessed with some form of immortality or invincibility either. It's dominance will only come to an end if people stop whining about it and try to outdo it instead. For the record, I don't use Google services or products nor do I ever feel forced to as it is implied whenever someone whines about Google being a "monopoly."