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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by sanderjd on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:40PM (#28880567)
But this argument still seems to rely on "monopoly position on search", when there are in fact a number of search engines.
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Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook by missedthecue on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:39PM (#28881381)
And additionally, the switching cost for users to change search engines is literally zero. It takes all of 2 seconds and opening a new tab.

There are no contract cancellations or negotiating or payment loss. It costs zero dollars and zero time. Google owns a huge portion of search simply because they have the best product.

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