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Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by jtbayly on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:34AM (#23629100)
What are the four monopolies?
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by jcranmer on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:42AM (#23629251)
I just want to say that I love how the response to this comment is several lists of 4, with search being the only one present in all of them.
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by secondbreakfast on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:36PM (#23632044)
The 4 I was thinking of:

Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube

Chrome is arguably a monopoly if you segment desktop web traffic, but iOS Safari is such a large percentage that Safari can't be ignored.

People will disagree with email - but I challenge you to go look at email threads you're on and see what % of the emails are @gmail.com - not to mention G Suite addresses you don't know are Gmail. Outside of enterprise, there's no alternative.

Not bad either that Android and Chrome are duopolies at this point.

Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by dfabulich on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:38AM (#23629170)
Search, Maps, YouTube, Chrome. (They all have competitors, some more successful than others.)

A bunch of people have listed Gmail on their lists, but Gmail is not even close to a monopoly, even in consumer email. https://email-verify.my-addr.com/list-of-most-popular-email-...

Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by dgellow on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:05PM (#23629606)
I have 2 remarkes:

- that's from 2016

- that seems to be worldwide (I see for example swiss and french providers in the list), which isn't necessarily relevant. Gmail can be a monopoly in the US for example, while not being one worldwide.

Unfortunately I cannot find better numbers, if someone does that would be interesting to discuss.

Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by lostmsu on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:50AM (#23629351)
I actually don't think Gmail (as other comments here claim) is nearly as much "monopoly" as YouTube. There are many email providers, people use whatever.
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by domkema on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:38AM (#23629191)
If I had to guess what GP is referring to: search, maps, email, and browser.

While I'm sure we could disagree on if Google actually has a monopoly in these domains, I think it's obvious they have a _substantial_ foothold.

Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by secondbreakfast on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:37PM (#23632055)
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by dgellow on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:36AM (#23629141)
I would say: Search, Map, Translate, Gmail.

Though technically they also have YouTube and do monetize it.

Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by disease on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:38AM (#23629180)
Search, the browser, email, non-streaming video are the only things that come to mind.
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by elwell on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:35AM (#23629128)
Search, Email, Maps (they own Waze), YouTube
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by ashconnor on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:38AM (#23629176)
Search, browser, email and maps.
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by perlgeek on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:38AM (#23629184)
search, maps, mail (gmail), video (youtube).
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by dhdersch on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:13PM (#23629756)
cloud computing is one of them /s