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What? It's not a protection racket. Google is a private enterprise who is free to show whatever content they like on their page. Not showing your site is not illegal, nor is it unethical. A protection racket involves some illegal compulsion to pay for the protection. That's what makes it illegal.

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It's not a protection racket but it is close to becoming a monopoly, which is also illegal in some circumstances.

This sort of anti-competitive coercion through overwhelming market power is why monopoly laws exist in the first place.

I don't think you understand what a monopoly entails. Having a large marketshare is simply not the only qualifier. It's also not remotely anti-competitive. That's just not what that word means.

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