For all intents and purposes, Google is a monopoly, especially when it paid search related. It’s not that hard to see down the road where the only 4 companies of size in their respective industry plus many others are Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix (or at least 3 out of these 4). The whole point of capitalism is to have small businesses constantly disrupting and breaking the large guy but our system today is designed to do just the opposite. When one of the FANGs (Amazon purchasing of WFM and announcing meal kits) can kill 75% of the market value of a fairly good size firm that was 2 days from going public (Blue Apron) in a matter of weeks, there is a big problem.
I agree. Use any search index you like, they are using Googles indexes at some point.
If Google applies their ‘hate speech’ filters to the index, then all search engine results are skewed.
A friend of my son LOST IT when the announcement of the WFM purchase by Amazon was given-—he cancelled his Amazon Prime account that day.
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