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by dpraburaj 3285 days ago
The marketshare of a company(at a point in time) does not determine whether a business is a monopoly or not, high/low barriers to entry in the particular industry do.

There are multiple search engines providing the same service that Google does and the cost of switching is so negligible as to be almost non-existent.

While I generally appreciate the EU's approach towards protecting the consumer's best interests, this just reeks of making up excuses to extort money from a highly successful company just because they can get away with it.