Steve’s Barking; Did governments create Google monopoly?

 I just can’t help but think 🤔 did government(s) help Google become almost monopolistic. Didn’t governments ( especially EU) hinder Microsoft internet endeavor because it was too much of vertical monopoly. The claim being that it stifled competition. Along came Google with a better search engine. All of a sudden even other search engines were using Google.  Perhaps 🤔 if governments were so hard on Microsoft there might be better search engines.

Now there are other search engines and unfortunately they don’t carry much weight. The fact of the matter for myself I use 4 different search engines. Duck Duck go for privacy, Bing for AI. Google which has been going down hill for lack of competition recently, until now, and IO ( which is really Google).

I remember first using AOL, then Yahoo until …. Google came along and wiped away the competition. . Perhaps 🤔 it was the fear of government or just poor leadership in other companies that their search engines lost it luster…

Now personally I believe in competition, it makes for better products… it’s up to the competition of Google to prove it had a better product…

 *** Another rambling blog by Steve’s Barking……