I find all this hand wringing over Google to be so tiring. Google is doing what is best for it's customers. Be that advertisers and/or searchers.
If they stop doing that, they'll lose their market dominance.
Last I checked, nobody is forced to use google to search for things, nobody if forced (except for perhaps android users) to use Chrome.
I'm not a laissez-faire capitalist by any means, but I don't see that Google has an unfair monopoly. They have achieved their dominance because their services are viewed as "best" by the majority of folks out there.
Nobody complains when Google suddenly starts delivering more customers to their web properties, only if traffic suddenly dies out.
If they stop doing that, they'll lose their market dominance.
Last I checked, nobody is forced to use google to search for things, nobody if forced (except for perhaps android users) to use Chrome.
I'm not a laissez-faire capitalist by any means, but I don't see that Google has an unfair monopoly. They have achieved their dominance because their services are viewed as "best" by the majority of folks out there.
Nobody complains when Google suddenly starts delivering more customers to their web properties, only if traffic suddenly dies out.