A lot of bickering behind whether Google fits the definition of a monopoly or not, this legalese is make-work for lawyers. As a citizen my only concern is: Doe

A lot of bickering behind whether Google fits the definition of a monopoly or not, this legalese is make-work for lawyers. As a citizen my only concern is: Does Google deserve its monopoly? Obviously Yes, there’s nothing Google does to prevent you from using Bing, DuckDuckGo etc. In fact you can start using them today, but Google will remain dominant because their product is superior Is googles monopoly harmful to society? Their premier product is free to consumers. In fact a lot of their core products are simply free. They’ve done an incredible amount of r and d from transformers, tensorflow to deepmind which easily costs them billions a year. In fact it’s very hard to make an argument that they’re bad for consumers. The biggest complaints I see are from companies that run ads on Google, who are frustrated by the lack of other options and googles high prices. Fair enough, but I don’t see how this concern should lead to breaking up one of the largest companies in the world that is also a source of so much innovation.