Shocking news this week.
A U.S. court found Google, that tiny little Northern California company that provides search, advertising, and other online services, to be a monopoly. Yes, a monopoly.
If you read mainstream media coverage of the ruling, you might think a giant space alien had just been killed.
Headlines scream superlatives, such as How Google’s Huge Defeat Could Change How You Search the Internet and 6 Ways the Google Ruling Could Change the Internet.
The monster is dead.
But is it really?
Many articles compare this ruling to the anti-trust ruling against Microsoft in 2000 when it was accused of defaulting to its web browser — Microsoft Explorer — in computers’ operating systems. Is that a good comparison?
We didn’t know, so we turned to CMI’s chief strategy advisor, Robert Rose, for his take. Watch or read on:
Is Google decision like Microsoft case in 2000?
Well, the comparison between the Microsoft and Google cases is valid, …