Break Google’s Monopoly for Good

At one point in time, Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil.” In the mid-2010s, they removed that. Its removal roughly corresponded to when Google went from being known for its search function to being known for…almost everything. 

The company has grown gargantuan in size. Its parent company, Alphabet, is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Worldwide, Google’s Search function comprises over 90 percent of all search engine usage. Its browser, Chrome, takes up almost 70 percent of the browser market (Apple’s Safari, which comes on all Macbooks, takes up 16 percent – meaning Google is effectively the default for all non-Apple computers and plenty of Apple computers). Gemini, its AI, is built into its search. Alphabet even owns 14 percent of Anthropic, the second-largest corporate shareholder after Amazon.

This is, unquestionably, a monopoly. While the United States federal government does not have a particular definition for the term, the Federal Trade Commission writes that courts will not rule a company is a monopoly if it “has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area,” while acknowledging that some courts “have required much higher percentages.”

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