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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by chrischen on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:31PM (#19340508)
Saying Google == email is a bit naive. Google is search, and the internet starts with search. They definitely have a monopoly on search and it's what's essentially powering almost all of Google revenue right now.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by zip1234 on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:59PM (#19340895)
Their revenue comes from ads, which happen to be on their search, which is used because it is the best, not because people are forced to use it.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by chrischen on Saturday March 09, 2019 @07:31AM (#19345826)
If that was purely the case they wouldn’t have paid Apple and Mozilla billions to set Google as the default.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by gowld on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:46PM (#19342514)
Ad revenue is powered by the content that draws eyeballs to the ads.

Ads are worthless on their own.

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