Bust up Google's destructive search monopoly
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Most everyone knows that Google overwhelmingly dominates online search. And recently, the company's search algorithm monopoly, in which their search engine prioritizes Google's own content in results, has rightly begun to attract significant antitrust attention in both the U.S. and Europe.
But this isn't the only monopolistic aspect of Google's search business. Google's position is protected by virtue of having by far the largest and best online index.
Software engineer Zack Maril has founded an organization called the Knucklehead Club (because only a knucklehead would take on such a rich and powerful company) to research and draw attention to this fact, as Daisuke Wakabayashi writes in