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A few more comments on the Google/monopoly question. I don't have strong views of just how you break it up into a few component parts. I wouldn't even say I'm 100% saying it must be broke up, though I can't see anyway to address the problems without that. The key to me ...
2/ is Google has repeatedly used monopoly power in one area to build monopoly power in other areas. In advertising and publishing, its monopoly power is massively clear. It owns the pipelines and the product. Google totally dominates both the ad industry and the infrastructure..
3/ of advertising. This was built on the ownership of search. And both now feed heavily off Google's various oceanic pipelines of data. But search is separable from the different components of its display advertising business. Simply put, I don't know the precise solution ...
4/ but the problem is clear and demonstrable.
