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So they're mad that Google paid a bunch of money to keep them from being the default because they wanted to pay a bunch of money to keep everyone else from bein

So they're mad that Google paid a bunch of money to keep them from being the default because they wanted to pay a bunch of money to keep everyone else from being the default, but Google had more money than them? Yes? Because the issue at hand is the monopolistic practices of Google.

adventured 3y ago
Exactly that. Spending enormous sums of money to blockade the competition out of the market, to keep other search providers away from users to the extent possible. As far as classic US anti-trust is concerned, that's a gigantic standard tell, what Google has been doing to shield its market position. If you go around paying very large sums to keep competitors out, that's a classic approach to abusing market power (as the US approaches anti-trust law) that is likely to be causing harm to consumers by denying competition in the market. It's the exact same reason Facebook isn't allowed to go around buying up all the social networks, even though on paper they easily could (they could trivially afford to have purchased: Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, Reddit, etc). Google spending cash to limit competition by owning location should be viewed just the same.
- foogazi 3y ago
  > It's the exact same reason Facebook isn't allowed to go around buying up all the social networks Is there a source to this ? They bought instagram and WhatsApp