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>Google's "search results" are the textbook definition of a monopolized good/service. Defining a market as a specific search engine's search results is wild. W
by ApolloFortyNine 2y ago
>Google's "search results" are the textbook definition of a monopolized good/service.
Defining a market as a specific search engine's search results is wild. Wouldn't every search engine have a monopoly over it's results? A grocery store monopoly over its shelves?
Etc.
- Forgeties79 2y agoWhen you are the only grocery store for 500mi yes you functionally have a “monopoly over your shelves.”
- lenerdenator 2y agoThere's Bing and DDG (aka "Bing without tracking").
- Forgeties79 2y agoBing barely has 10% of the market despite being owned by Microsoft and DDG has .5% I am a DDG user and even I recognize they are barely a blip.
- ApolloFortyNine 2y agoYou can switch your search to bing in less time then it took to write this message. Your 500 mile analogy simply does not apply.
- jonhohle 2y agoAs a business owner you can’t tell all of your present and future customers you’re only going to be in Bing results going forward. This isn’t about what an individual chooses to use. Google is effectively the Yellow pages of the internet. In that era you could take out ads in the newspaper, but no one was looking there when they needed to find a resource they needed now.