DOJ’s Discovery Of Google’s ‘Monopoly’ Confirms The Lawsuit’s Superfluous Nature

DOJ’s Discovery Of Google’s ‘Monopoly’ Confirms The Lawsuit’s Superfluous Nature

Have you heard of MySpace lately? The question answers itself.

Funny about the once dominant social media giant is that in 2006 its daily traffic still surpassed Google's



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. Yes, Google used to trail MySpace, and before that its founders almost certainly admired the search and traffic dominance of AOL and Yahoo. The former was once seen as so powerful that its merger with Time Warner was delayed for a year. A few years after the combination was “allowed” by antitrust nail biters, Time Warner removed an increasingly irrelevant “AOL” from AOL/Time Warner. It was bad for branding.

What about Internet Explorer? Surely that rings a bell. That Microsoft



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bundled the latter into its software back in the day – for free –