I cant see how their a monolopy. I almost switched to bing, except its results were not accurate enough for me. I tried different email hosts but i was getting too much spam. I dont touch google+ so that wasnt an option.
There is competition but (in my opinion) dont do enough or arnt what i want. There isnt any way i see google stiffling competition that i can see as i have tried quite a few (and do use them on occasion), to me it seems as if its more because their not a european produce (as techdirt originaly noted and seemed to ring true to me).
well i kind of deciphered your comment, but I dont see how this has anything to do with Google not being european. There is no european counterpart who would benefit from this outcome, the biggest benefit would be to Microsoft (Bing) andother American company and probably a whole host of other US tech companies.
And also to the fact that i dont believe they are a monopoly(nor do i think their abusing their position), and as such dont think anyone has any right to demand anything from them - especially breaking the company up.
There is competition but (in my opinion) dont do enough or arnt what i want. There isnt any way i see google stiffling competition that i can see as i have tried quite a few (and do use them on occasion), to me it seems as if its more because their not a european produce (as techdirt originaly noted and seemed to ring true to me).