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And not just Google, or per the article Amazon and Apple.

Of these, Google is by far the worst in my opinion. Mainly because they don't sell any other product. *You* are their primary product.

Amazon is eating an increasing chunk of Google's lunch. They promote advertising in about the only way it really makes sense to me --- on their web site --- where I go to express an interest in buying a specific product.

partly changed from a product you use to get your stuff done to a platform to sell you more stuff from Microsoft

Yes, a predictable response to competition in the form it has taken.