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"We aren't a monopoly because we don't just control web search, we also control all this other tech..."

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I mean, it's trained on internet content, and there's probably a lot of articles that say "Google" and "monopoly" in close proximity.

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-a matter of legal and economic interpretation

If there's a possible interpretation that a company is a monopoly, they're a monopoly.

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NeatNitreply
discuss.tchncs.de

I agree on the merits, but the contrarian in me has to point out that any company is a monopoly through some convoluted interpretation. For example: Logitech has a monopoly on mice and keyboards that work with their proprietary software.

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Wait until AGI!

AGI: Yes.

Wait until the sentient robots!

Sentient robots: Yes.

Wait until biological...

Biologics: Glub, glub. Yes.

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"If you're here about the health advisory that aired on channel six recently, say 'silly ol' advisory.'"

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lemmy.world

Other search engines use Google for their results. There are very few independent web crawlers.

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