If someone were to invent a new method for information retrieval superior to a search engine they could thrive. As for proper monopolies it's usually the power/water utilities, although I think that the breakup of at&t…
Isn't that what you're doing? Search ads isn't the only way to reach people and it's not an impediment for new entrants as shown by Amazon's ad business. As for the general matter, google has the right to publish and…
"search advertising" is a curiously narrow distinction, the market is "advertising" and they own but a sliver of it.
Promoting stuff on one's own website isn't in any way shape or form illegal.
There is no monopoly when your stuff is free, has virtually zero replacement cost and no lock-in. The "google is a monopoly" trope was introduced and cultivated by Steve Ballmer's Microsoft and it's being constantly…
"Mississippi, Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood has sued the company for its handling of students’ data. For years, the two sides have warred repeatedly, with Google at one point suggesting that the Democratic…
There is an inherent conflict of interests when traditional outlets try to make every crisis into a referendum about social media.
I think that a system that allows people who have produced (Page, Rubin) to be subject to to the tantrums (legal and otherwise) of those who didn't is a broken system.
If someone were to invent a new method for information retrieval superior to a search engine they could thrive. As for proper monopolies it's usually the power/water utilities, although I think that the breakup of at&t…
Isn't that what you're doing? Search ads isn't the only way to reach people and it's not an impediment for new entrants as shown by Amazon's ad business. As for the general matter, google has the right to publish and…
"search advertising" is a curiously narrow distinction, the market is "advertising" and they own but a sliver of it.
Promoting stuff on one's own website isn't in any way shape or form illegal.
There is no monopoly when your stuff is free, has virtually zero replacement cost and no lock-in. The "google is a monopoly" trope was introduced and cultivated by Steve Ballmer's Microsoft and it's being constantly…
"Mississippi, Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood has sued the company for its handling of students’ data. For years, the two sides have warred repeatedly, with Google at one point suggesting that the Democratic…
There is an inherent conflict of interests when traditional outlets try to make every crisis into a referendum about social media.
I think that a system that allows people who have produced (Page, Rubin) to be subject to to the tantrums (legal and otherwise) of those who didn't is a broken system.