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Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a... by danielmarkbruce on Friday August 16, 2024 @12:03PM (#41267576)
Google doesn't have an advertising monopoly. Facebook all by itself does about half of Google's revenue in ads. Then you have twitter, amazon, snap, all kinds of stuff. Google would be lucky to have 40% of online ads, and then once you include all advertising they are way down, maybe 15-20% or something.
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Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a... by chairmansteve on Saturday August 17, 2024 @03:54PM (#41277428)
They have a search monopoly, therefore are the gateway to internet
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Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a... by danielmarkbruce on Saturday August 17, 2024 @11:16PM (#41279899)
That's at least close to the truth. It's not strictly a monopoly though. And there is a very real chance it's all about to blow up given LLMs.
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Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a... by alsetmusic on Thursday August 22, 2024 @05:34PM (#41324580)
The judge found them to be a monopoly. They are strictly a monopoly. Unless the case gets overturned, they are exactly a monopoly.

LLMs are not going to meaningfully upset the balance any time soon. They are a service / product in search of a problem for most people. And if they do something useful for you, that’s great but HN users are not most people so the statement stands.

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