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Google is a monopolist, but the egg can’t be unscrambled

The company paid tens of billions of dollars to become the world’s dominant search engine. Even Microsoft couldn’t compete.

Nick Bonyhady
Nick BonyhadyTechnology writer

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The US government’s landmark case against Google was widely seen as coming down to one question: Is the company utterly dominant in internet searches because its services are great, or because it paid Apple, Samsung and others billions of dollars to set it as the default option on their devices and software?

Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Alphabet – Google’s parent company – was among tech bosses to testify. AP

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Nick Bonyhady is a technology writer for the Australian Financial Review, based in Sydney. He is a former technology editor, industrial relations and politics reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald and Age. Connect with Nick on Twitter. Email Nick at nick.bonyhady@afr.com

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