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60% market share is big, but it's not a monopoly. Even 85% ain't.



Don't get so hung up on semantics.

Quote: The Supreme Court has defined (...) monopoly power as "the power to control prices or exclude competition".

[https://www.justice.gov/archives/atr/competition-and-monopol...]


They don't exclude any competition, and, well, browsers and web searches are free.


to be fair, free is a price, and one that is very hard to compete with, at that


Sure, but it's hard to argue that customers are overcharged by the alleged monopoly.




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