2.5% is a very small share

One out of every 40 searches worldwide being made using your product is, in your opinion, a very small share?

In a thread about a monopoly abusing its power, the least you can do is to stop measuring success by how monopolistic a company is.

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weatherlite 2 days ago | parent [-]

> One out of every 40 searches worldwide being made using your product is, in your opinion, a very small share?

I meant in terms of Google's dominance in search. Currently, not even ChatGPT / LLM search are shrinking Google's dominance - Google keeps growing search traffic and revenue. It does seem though that the whole search market has grown with LLMs , people now query for stuff they've never queried before.

> In a thread about a monopoly abusing its power, the least you can do is to stop measuring success by how monopolistic a company is.

How do you measure success then? All companies want to dominate their industries why are we picking on Google? This is capitalism.

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input_sh 2 days ago | parent [-]

You're absolutely right, we shouldn't pick on just Google. We should pick on basically every company that owns over 50% of its market share, as I'm sure how they got there is by abusing their power in one way or the other.

A healthy economy is the one where you have 50 smaller companies each with 2.5% market share, not one with over 80% and everyone else being called a failure like you just did. Hope that clears things up!

	▲	weatherlite 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's not clear to me why Google has to be broken up. Google built the best browser around, people aren't using it for no reason, and then it used its user base to direct them to their search - which to me sounds reasonable (most people would use Google for search even if they're on a different browser. Whether it's habit or simply a superior search engine - that's what they want). Making Google sell chrome, to me , wouldn't be different than making Nvidia sell a big part of their GPU know how or making Microsoft sell Windows or making Apple get rid of the App Store.