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Originally Posted by BWinmill
As things stand today, a breakup would be a bit premature. Google may be the dominant player in several markets, but they are far from the only player. For example: the competition is much more robust than the competition Microsoft has faced in the desktop computer market since the late 1980's.
That said, I can definitely see why people would be concerned about anti-trust. There is a huge conflict of interest between their search engine and the other products that they offer. They could use their search engine to give preferential treatment to their own products or to customers of their own products. The latter could be used to give their advertising services a boost, as one example. While it isn't clear that Google is abusing their dominance in the search engine market, the potential is certainly a cause for concern. That's especially true when you consider how aggressive Google has become with respect to Android. While it is possible to ship Android based devices without Google's services, Google has been using the dominance of their App store to ensure that most Android devices are a platform for all Google services. In other words, they don't always play clean.
In other words, Google should be scrutinized even if it is premature to break them up.
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All valid points.
But the anti-Google efforts for the most part aren't concerned with any of those.
What they really want is to squeeze money out of google to feed local legacy media. If google started "sharing the wealth" the concerns would go away just like the Microsoft concerns went away with a nice big fine.