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Re:Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio] by mc32 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @12:18PM (#18461155)
I think social is different from search. With search it’s hard to unseat an incumbent, but you can iteratively improve quality and grow a following.

Social requires network effects. Even Google with massive resources at its disposition could not compete with Facebook.

Now, from the advertisers’ PoV, Google is a essentially a monopoly in search, but not so much from and end user’s perspective.

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