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mikedee - 3:49 pm on Jun 15, 2008 (gmt 0)
Google has no ability to abuse the monopoly so why should they be open to anti-trust investigations? Them owning 70% of search and advertising does not stop me from starting my own search engine so it does not impact competition. How would they be able to do that? Why would they want to do it? Wal-mart actually sells goods, Google is just an advertiser. Why would Google have an interest in closing small businesses?
The point is that if Google started to abuse its monopoly like Microsoft did, then people would just switch to another search provider like they did when Google first came on the scene. At the time Altavista and Yahoo ruled the web. It is very much harder to switch your OS than to switch your search provider. google is going to do to small businesses online what wal-mart did to them offline.