| Its not that easy We are a small startup and we were outpacing 2 of the 4 giants They resorted to outright illegal stuff manipulation of search engine results
not delivering our emails when it was to their email service
hacking attacks
click fraud on our ads * The REAL problem is not that they have monopoly status and cannot be outpaced The real problem is that they abuse their monopoly position, do illegal things, and get away with it Now we are building both a platform and our own search engine
Consider the absurdity of that Instead of just building a better product (which we had) and being able to win and/or compete based on that We have to literally build our own entire ecosystem
How many startups can do that? Should every tech company that happens to be competing against the big 4 monopolies be expected to do that |