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CMV: Google is a monopoly and needs to be regulated like a government agency.

# Change My View: Google is a monopoly and needs to be regulated like a government agency.

Google stifles search results to places that are not Google-owned and promotes links to sites that they do own like YouTube.

If there were five options like Google that had a more or less equal share of the market, this would be completely understandable, but there isn't. You have Google, the number one website on the Internet by far. Then you have Bing and Yahoo much, much, lower below in terms of market share.

The effect of this is that when companies like YouTube ban people, they don't have anywhere to go.

I know they have their own websites, but that's BS, and we all know it. Youtube is where things get seen, shared, and responded too.

Think of it this way, how many times, from how many people, have you heard that it would be a great thing if someone would create an alternative YouTube or an uncensored YouTube or just competition for YouTube? Well, where is it?

In anything even close to a fair market, Google and Youtube would have a ton of competitors. But they don't, things like Twitter and Facebook are competitors, and because of that, they're continually improving themselves.

Even when the big sources try to compete with Google it shuts them down. When Facebook try to integrate a video feature to compete with Youtube, it was struck down.

Think about how well Vine did, and that was limited to seven-second videos. They were never going to leave anything but the comedy sphere. That has to show how much the market is demanding a competitor, and yet there's still nothing.

It's like the issue we had with the railroads in the United States, except in a world where the only people allowed to build new railroads are the people who already own the existing railroads. Any time someone does try to make an alternative, it's bought by the establishment. On the rare occasion where it stays independent, Google renders it effectively nonexistent, Suppressing it so even when people search for it, it only shows up on page 3 or 4 of Google. Alternatively, they promote any negative news about it to show up first. So a potential new user must look through 4 or 5 articles about how it promotes racism or hates women or something before finding a link to the site.

I usually don't like the idea of the government messing with the market like this, but I don't think there is another way. Even if you split Youtube and other parts off of Google it wouldn't help, the remaining portion would just start buying new companies and suppressing their competitors. **The only way I think this could be solved is if Google (the search engine) is separated and considered a public utility**.

I've tried to talk about this with people, but every time I get blank looks or hostility. I understand that Google is a cool company, I like them a lot more than most, but that doesn't make me ok with them owning the keys to the internet.
gpt
Well Bing makes 500 million a year in revenue, There are also sites like Vimeo, bitshute , liveleak. When the justice department broke up bell telephone in the early 80s you had to use them, there were no other choices at all.