Break em up!
Google NEEDS to be broken up badly. They are essentially a monopoly in the online space, from chrome to search to maps to youtube.
Every service is abusing the power of the others to grow their market share and kill competition.
I used to love Google. They pushed the web and tech in the right direction.
But somewhere along the way they’ve been taken over by marketing cunts that only looked at the bottom line and didn’t care how evil or anti consumer they became.
But if you break apart Google, how will they afford to keep killing off their own services!?!
Do they need to split off different departments? Since most of the stuff that Google dabbles in is digital, can’t they just start a few new companies with the exact same IP and split up the work force instead?
“Sharing” the IP wouldn’t really work. The point is to have multiple companies that are either not overlapping, or are competing with each other. If they’re all working on the same IP but with different work forces, then you either have single products that diverge as multiple teams independently develop them (No longer the same product) or you just have a single large company with extra steps.
That’s what I mean if you split chrome out of alphabet you’ve still got chrome at 90ish market share
If you split it up then you’re forcing them to adapt and change
I’m not sure I’m making sense
It would start at 90%, but drop for reasons the other reply said
Also: no longer would it be advertised as a browser to everyone who visits the Google search page. No longer will a conglomerate of what should be like 20 different companies in 14 different sectors be able to easily manipulate every website into optimizing for their products, so the average user will feel far less inclined to stay with them if there’s an alternative that works better for them
But if you split Chrome and the browser team, from the Search Engine team, and from the Advertising team, then all of a sudden they’re not all just one stacked product anymore, and so while Chrome may currently have the lions share of the market, it’s now competing on the same footing as Firefox and the rest.
I’ll believe it when I see it but it was nice to have a court case actually convicting them.
Edit:
the most likely units for divestment are the Android operating system and Google’s web browser Chrome, said the people. Officials are also looking at trying to force a possible sale of AdWords, the platform the company uses to sell text advertising, one of the people said.
That would be so nice, there was already a huge thread about how much Google screws over Android too.
