Bust up Google s destructive search monopoly
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Most everyone knows that Google overwhelmingly dominates online search. And recently, the company s search algorithm monopoly, in which their search engine prioritizes Google s own content in results, has rightly begun to attract significant antitrust attention in both the U.S. and Europe.
But this isn t the only monopolistic aspect of Google s search business. Google s position is protected by virtue of having by far the largest and best online index.
Software engineer Zack Maril has founded an organization called the Knucklehead Club (because only a knucklehead would take on such a rich and powerful company) to research and draw attention to this fact, as Daisuke Wakabayashi writes in
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