The way I explain how google got a de facto monopoly on search in France (and in Europe) is a combination of : -being a good product with no real good competito

The way I explain how google got a de facto monopoly on search in France (and in Europe) is a combination of : -being a good product with no real good competitor for european languages (except for russian where Yandex exists) -set as the default search engine for mozilla, opera and then chrome from the start. Bing is the default one on IE but bing just came along in 2009. Before that I'm not even sure what was the default search engine in europe for IE. Things have changed in the last years but most people configuration once set won't change even if google is not the default search engine for firefox anymore. I was actually not speaking about using law to force competition but just saying that the general web literacy in France and probably in most of europe is so low that every law that deals with internet does not get any traction with congressmen and in the media because most people doesn't understand an inch of what is as stake therefore they do not care.