Did Google use its monopoly to exclude competitors?
US v Google prosecutor thinks so. Do you?
Exclude? Nah, they ain't Microsoft. Give pushes to their own services? Yeah. Is that legal or unethical? Eh, I can go either way.
Didn't striking deals with every major platform to make Google the default exclude potentially better new entrants artificially preserve their monopoly?
They made it a default, but the user can change it. That's a push more of an exclusion. Microsoft previously would force PC manufacturers to not have a Linux option by withholding licenses or charging a ridiculous price if they offered Linux, making it essentially exclusionary as end users had no choice but to pay for Windows.
This is the way they are blackmailing google and arm twisting them to help them with 2024 elections.
Nah this is gonna be another play to get tech companies to fund the government by paying fees
Building a superior product doesnt make it an illegal monopoly
Using the resulting monopoly to exclude competitors is, though. Isn't that what Google did when it paid billions to make it the default across platforms? That's not just being a better product, that's using monopoly power to limit choice.
Being able to buy the default option is not monopoly.