[eclipxe]

>Google doesn't have to do any of that shit themselves and can gleefully put themselves at the top of every search (and are doing with an ever expanding array of search terms).

Why shouldn't a company be able to decide what they feature on their search results and how they rank things? If every result was a Google owned site, so what? Nothing is stopping you from using a different search engine.

[mattmanser]

Because it's using your domination in one market to destroy competitors in another, it's illegal.

Hence the big fines that google is starting to get hit with, with some regularity.

[sixstringtheory]

> Nothing is stopping you from using a different search engine.

AMP links are everywhere now, not just Google search results.

Thank goodness for the bot on Reddit that posts replies with the actual link, for any AMP links that are posted.