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Amazon can easily point to Walmart, Apple can easily point to.. Every other phone that's not an iPhone.

Google is the only one who doesn't have anybody realistic to point to, and no, Bing does not count.

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Google can point to FB, TikTok and other social networks that also utilizes UGC video consumption to deliver ads.

Isn't this more about their search engine than it is about youtube? Unless youtube also has >90% market.

Do Alexa, Siri and all the new ways of searching count as search engines?

You ever herd someone say "just siri/alexa/bing/yahoo/ddg it"?

This isn't a particularly strong argument. Kleenex isn't on the antitrust chopping block even though you never hear anyone say, "Hey, can you pass me an AngelSoft?"

Even if that is true, do you deny that they are search engines themselves.

Siri, Alexa etc are even more opaque as they don't give a list of results, rather have deep integration to their own services and can't even be replaced by an alternative.

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