August 2022: 3.34%

August 2023: 3.03%

Meanwhile Google has 92%: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

> their AI search is significantly better

Whether the product is the best in class or not doesn't have any relevance when it comes to judging a monopoly. At least I really hope we don't end up in a situation where courts start ruling based on speculation on the future of AI because good lord would that be a mess.

I actually wish the media would stop calling these "monopoly" trials, even though I understand why they do it. They're antitrust trials. Google does not need to have an overarching monopoly in order to be tried for antitrust violations.

Google should know from Chrome's start that a lot of market share is user laziness, if you show up with a functionally equivalent product. Eventually someone clicks "Try X!"

MS' privileging of ChapGPT in Bing-on-Edge is a pretty genius shot.

Google is still the number one search engine, by a pretty large margin, but they are looking increasingly vulnerable and even smaller search engines with their own crawlers are starting to appear.

For example, would they attempt to exploit Android etc. even more?

On some level there is a case that their core vulnerability represents a major risk to them suddenly going full evil with everything in their strategic moat.

They might already be tracking their profitability that way to encourage search to include more ads "organically" (as in by tying search performance to ads in search revenue that team will be interested in improving ads in search revenue)

This doesn't even mean Google Search doesn't use Google Ads. It just means that Google Search has to buy usage of Google Ads thereby allowing competition between ad providers.