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Google's huge market share doesn't automatically make it a monopoly

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
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This week the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a lawsuit accusing Google of using “anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in the markets” for search and advertising.

It is the most significant antitrust case since the US government took on Microsoft in 1998 for using its dominant...

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