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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by mamurphy on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:43PM (#19291339)
Google's primary service is selling search ads that consumers view, primarily via search. Consumers have almost no lock in, and consistently choose Google search over Bing, etc. Google is not at all like Oracle in this case.
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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by microdrum on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:45PM (#19291351)
Google's business is selling ads to companies and agencies (which hate Google) and selling ad display tech to websites and publishers (which hate Google). They buy companies (Urchin, Doubleclick), make them free, destroy competition, introduce pricing. Pretty identical to the bad guys in tech history.
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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by majewsky on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:04PM (#19291915)
Even if that's true, it doesn't matter. Consumers are using Google, so there is not really a free market for search ads from thee marketers' perspective.
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