What if the argument was Groupon was local search?
From a revenue driving. Local Search > Search, Local Couponing > AdWords. Therefore, Groupon > Google.
From a revenue driving. Local Search > Search, Local Couponing > AdWords. Therefore, Groupon > Google.
If you could show me how Local Search could exist outside of search, then you might have an argument, but right now, I just don't see it.
I doubt very much that Google doesn't generate at least some of their own power.
I'm quite confident that they can exist outside of any single power company.
Does the analogy hold after this premise is eliminated?
Saying that the analogy (argument) rests on "the fact that..." pretty blatantly begs the question.
Is there a case where one company is both bigger than and wholly[1] depends on another, single company's services?
I would be unsurprised if the answer is "no" and that this is the case because dependents are invariably absorbed or killed off by the "parent" before they can grow larger.
[1] If the issue is monopoly, then my "quibble" is that, to Google (or any other electricity consumer beyond a modest size), no company has a monopoly on power.