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How is it that they have a monopoly on Search and Cloud Computing exactly?

• jncraton 18y ago
  They definitely don't, at least not right now. They are a big company with a huge market share, and that scares people. However, they don't generally do things that give them an unfair advantage over their competition. Yahoo, Ask, etc are definitely competitive in the search market. Google is the clear front runner, but they are not without significant competition. The idea that they have a monopoly on cloud computing is completely absurd. They don't even have online storage for normal users live yet. They provide users with a place to store and edit documents online, but they are far from the only company doing that. They don't come close to competing with S3. The only reasonable allegation is the charge of having a monopoly on online advertising. I'm still not entirely sure why they were able to buy DoubleClick, and I would not be too surprised if the advertising portion of Google was forced to split at some point in the future. As far as a monopoly on search and cloud computing go though, I would definitely agree that those are not valid in the current market.
  • whughes 18y ago
    Wouldn't forcing the advertising division to split destroy Google? It seems like that would create one company with huge profit but not much else and another company with lots of projects and engineers but no profit source.