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That's more ok for a smaller outfit, but now that Google is abusing their monopolistic market position it's not as ok.

Not to worry, the days of the U.S. government busting up monopolies seem behind us.

If users heard there were better results elsewhere though, they would switch from Google. However, it is more likely that by doing this Google prevents itself from being taken over by a competitor that creates this feature.

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