>It’s a lot easier to pay off your would-be competitors than it is to innovate. I’m hesitant to say that antitrust is good for its subjects, but Google does make you wonder.

This line would ring more true if Google hadn't invented transformers and a host of other ML breakthroughs to bolster search. Also not search related, but inventing self-driving cars and solving protein folding are innovations that benefit consumers greatly.

I'd bet Ben himself has compared Google to Bell Labs in the past. To argue they don't innovate is insane.