Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case
by ma2rten on Monday June 24, 2019 @12:38PM
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The problem with breaking up google is that the vast majority of revenue and profits comes from search ads. You can't break up search ads from search.
Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case
by darkpuma on Monday June 24, 2019 @12:56PM
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Is youtube still being operated at a loss? If google runs a video sharing platform at or near a loss, funded by cash they get from search ads, then how can any other company possibly compete with them? By also running a video sharing platform at or near a loss? There is a very small number of companies that could conceivably do that.
This is precisely why google needs to be broken up.
Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case
by v7p1Qbt1im on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:17PM
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By your logic there would be no YouTube. Or no user generated video at all. I imagine most people (including me) wouldn‘t like that.
Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case
by darkpuma on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:05PM
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> "By your logic there would be no YouTube."
In it's current form, no, and I'm fine with that. I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. The status quo is not divine providence.
Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case
by v7p1Qbt1im on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @01:49AM
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> I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like.
What does that even mean? Clearly another platform of similar popularity would end up heaving the exact same problems.
I'll credit the WSJ for counting themselves among those enemies, but what I find vexing with all these reports is the constant and casual mentions of "breaking up" these companies as though it's a viable and realistic outcome which it isn't and any self respecting publication should present things in the proper context.