And for the record, I'm no fan of Google at all. I use a different search engine on all of my devices (was a huge Neeva evangelist until they got bought and gut

And for the record, I'm no fan of Google at all. I use a different search engine on all of my devices (was a huge Neeva evangelist until they got bought and gutted by Snowflake, currently jumping between Bing and SearXNG). But the fact remains that paying to be the default option among a half dozen or more search engines for users to choose from is not "maintaining a monopoly" by any definition.