Steven Hodson asks why Google gets a free ride on this whole accusation of monopoly thing. It’s a great question, and a sentiment that I’ve heard growing ever since the privacy concerns began surfacing after Google Street View (and one that will likely get asked more and more under growing ad privacy concerns and OpenSocial domination). Microsoft, since I was but knee high to a web-server, has always been the subject of ridicule and scorn because of an alleged monopoly they’ve held on the market.
Meanwhile, if my server logs are in any way indicative of what is going on in the wilds of the web, Google has achieved what could charitably be called the lion’s share of the search business, or more accurately be called complete and total dominance of search.