> That isn't what Google is doing. They aren't using a monopoly in search to try to establish a monopoly in browsers or phone OSes. Google search will happily r

> That isn't what Google is doing. They aren't using a monopoly in search to try to establish a monopoly in browsers or phone OSes. Google search will happily return results for Apple phones or for how to download Firefox. Except that's not true. IIRC, before Chrome was ubiquitous and dominant, they used their search monopoly to incessantly nag people to install it. If Chrome had just popped up as a download on some Google website, and was never promoted by is other properties, I really doubt it would be so dominant today. At the time Firefox had something like a ~25% market share and was growing fast, and IE had the rest). If Google hadn't used its monopoly, I bet we'd now have a 3-way browser split between Firefox, and Chrome, and a cleaned up IE.