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Re:Ask HN: Is Google a Monopoly or just really good at build... by thayne on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:51PM (#19416124)
When it first came out, gmail was significantly better than the competition, for the following reasons:

1. _much_ better spam filtering

2. _much_ better searching

3. a _lot_ of storage (no need to delete old emails)

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google a Monopoly or just really good at build... by shereadsthenews on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:59PM (#19416178)
When Gmail came out it was also a gigantic money incinerator into which Google shoveled search ads revenue. It is easy to show that Google used one product line to break into another line of business. It would be harder to convince me that this harmed consumers.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Google a Monopoly or just really good at build... by candiodari on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:04AM (#19419587)
Anti-monopoly law is not meant to prevent companies from investing in different product lines. Monopoly law is meant to prevent companies from using one product to force customers to buy into another product.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Google a Monopoly or just really good at build... by shereadsthenews on Monday March 18, 2019 @10:15AM (#19421138)
But dumping is also against (American) antitrust laws.
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