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 possib

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.