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I get really frustrated with the monopoly attack on Google, and really, with any attack on a company that is a monopoly through being great at what they do. Goo
by mintone 12y ago
I get really frustrated with the monopoly attack on Google, and really, with any attack on a company that is a monopoly through being great at what they do. Google is the best search engine; we use Google because it's really fucking good at what it does. Yes DDG exists but it doesn't compete, Bing is well, Bing, and others don't hold a flame. You may not like that they are a monopoly but for 99% of people, Google is the Internet.
- freehunter 12y agoThere's nothing wrong with being a monopoly. But when you are, the worry becomes how will you use that monopoly? Will you keep working to push the market forward? Will you keep doing what you do best? Or will you abuse your dominant position to keep competitors out, leverage that monopoly to further your market position in another area, and act in a way that is unfriendly to everyone but yourself? Microsoft has done it, and got busted. Apple has done it, and got busted (albeit in a fairly small way). People are I think rightfully worried that the same thing could happen with Google. Even more so because of how respected they are with the hacker community and the tech community at large. It's not about how they got their first monopoly, it's about how they got every one after that and what they do with them that matters.