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Re:Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded W... by dant on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @07:05AM (#628297)
If true, this strengthens the case that Google's monopoly is dangerous. The defence of Google's market dominance has always been that users are not locked in to Google and would switch the moment something better arrived. If Google have built a brand loyalty that transcends that then they would be virtually impossible to challenge.
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Re:Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded W... by Ardit20 on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @08:08AM (#628344)
Just because you can't compete with them it doesn't make them bad guys. When google came into the market it didn't go to the government to say, hey Micrsofot is too big and that msn search engine is too good, if only you guys could disadvantage our competition!
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Re:Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded W... by dant on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @09:26AM (#628428)
True. I'm not passing judgement or using subjective terms like "bad guys", I'm just saying that the OP highlights what a robust monopoly Google has and that the counter arguments that some have offered are wrong.
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