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by comprev 1307 days ago
In the same way it's so hard to disrupt Google.

They are such a powerful monopoly the average Joe rarely thinks there is an alternative.

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Ticketmaster is nowhere close to Google's monopoly. If anybody want to buy a ticket, they will use whatever site sells them, users just don't care, they will follow any link from band's webpage. In case of search results you would have to fight to get and keep each user. I mean Google pays Firefox $400M a year, to be default search engine, despite its dwindling market share.