They're giving themselves money by abusing their monopoly status. Sure, in a totally free market, it looks innocent. There are laws against this because monopolies are damaging to any market it's in and ends up hurting the end user.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
>A monopoly (from Greek μόνος, mónos, 'single, alone' and πωλεῖν, pōleîn, 'to sell'), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.
how is Google a monopoly according to the above definition in Wikipedia?
they have competitors like bing, duckduckgo, kagi, and some others that i have read about here on hn recently.
and I do not know about the others, but at least bing and duckduckgo have existed for many years.
so again, how are they a monopoly?
to repeat, quoting from the Wikipedia definition of monopoly:
>A monopoly (from Greek μόνος, mónos, 'single, alone' and πωλεῖν, pōleîn, 'to sell'), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.
(italics mine)
can you really not see the difference between 90% search share held by Google, which means 10% share held by others, vs. absence of competition? it is blindingly obvious.
I am leaving this thread. I don't argue with people who either don't get it, or seem to be operating under false pretences.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/google-lo...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/google-...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/yes-google-has-a-mon...
[4] http://www2.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/eco211f/lectures/monopo...
half the links (i.e. 1 and 2) you quoted above don't work for me. paywalls or signup required? clever you, eh? not!
and link 4 is too long and verbose. I searched for the word effective, but did not find it in the initial part on the screen.
aaannnddd ... you are quoting journalists (!) as though they are automatically competent authorities? and even judges' decisions sometimes get reversed by higher courts. so effectively you have no point. hee ... hee ... hee ...
looks like, in your arguments, you thrive on appeals to faux authority, and nothing else, particularly not on reasoning.
so, tata, bye bye, dude.
this sort of argument is below me.
bless you. you need it.