Did the government grant Google a monopoly?
This is a market outcome. Perfect competition is not the natural state of the market, even though free marketers prefer to hand wave it into existence.
This is a market outcome. Perfect competition is not the natural state of the market, even though free marketers prefer to hand wave it into existence.
Don’t get me wrong, antitrust is good! Government intervention is necessary. But lasseiz-fares does not mean what you appear to think it means.
That is substantively different from a government granted monopoly, wherein it is illegal to create a competing business.
The point is that monopolies are a natural market outcome, and are what created Google. Does Google continue to exist as it is because the government has chosen not to do anything? Yes. Welcome to the free market.