Re:'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growi...
by t-writescode on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:44PM
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It might have one in online advertising? Are there any players aside from Amazon that aren’t Google in the online, automated advertising world?
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Re:'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growi...
by boh on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:25PM
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Also a difficult case to make. They're dominant because users have chosen to be a part of their network, and advertisers want to reach those users. It's difficult to argue they engaged in anti-competitive behavior by making a highly useful/effective product people choose to use. Up to this point, network effects can't be cited as anti-competitive. Looking at the times when Google did use their platform to bully other companies, it still wasn't in a business they dominate (Yelp comes to mind). It's difficult to argue an algorithm producing search results is inherently anti-competitive.