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Re:How did Google get so big? by ur-whale on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:17PM (#17628982)
>Say you do a search for a particular location, the first thing that pops up to the the top of the page is a box with some information pulled from wikipedia and a link/image of it on google maps.

You're saying Google provided you with exactly the information you were looking for in the first place. And for free, btw.

That clearly can't be allowed to stand.

Re:How did Google get so big? by zjaffee on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:39PM (#17629152)
Whats good for consumers isn't whats good for the broader market, we wouldn't see mega billionares with net worths close to that of previous captains of industry if we forced them to allow others to compete (where the only viable way to do so from my perspective is to not let them compete at all). In every other industry you see far less vertical integration due to the history of how companies have been regulated against (i.e. Car and airplane manufacturers are using very few of their own parts).
Re:How did Google get so big? by fjsolwmv on Friday July 27, 2018 @05:38PM (#17629639)
Society doesn't really care whether there are 10 megabillionaires or 100 minor billionaires.