When google gets split up, who gets what? I personally hope that Android gets spun out as a separate company, Google Search and YouTube being separate entities would be an actual thing
How should Google be split up?
search/email/docs/maps/analytics
youtube
android/pixel/chrome
Web services
Ads, analytics
What ever the fuck Alphabet does.
YouTube
Google Search/Maps/Images/News
Chrome/Chromium
Android/Pixel
Google Ads
Whatever else I am forgetting.
Google search
Analytics
Youtube
Firebase and API
Adwords/Adsense
Gmail
GSuite
Orbitera
Translate and Maps
>How should Google be split up?
dynamite (if i had my way). since they're a giant monopoly with far too much power, the US government needs to break it up. it didn't stop them back decades ago when they broke up the monopoly of the bell telephone company back at the start of the 80s.
Alphabet is just a puppet company made to make taxes and stuff easier for Google and to subvert liability.
>repeating history
It shouldn't be split up. It should be nationalized.
pajeets/chinks/56%/women
this. free public YouTube is where its @
Based
Android
Chrome browser
Google maps is kill, everyone migrates to OpenStreetMaps
YouTube is maybe kill, they dont make profits much
I have no idea how Google Search will work
Commie fagot
Naturally forming monopolies must be allowed, no matter what your personal opinions about specific ones of them are.
Splitting them up is statist interventionism, and will apply arbitrary reasoning why company X should be split up but not Y. It's inconsistent and illiberal.
Leave the economy alone, every time it is tampered with it, it has had some incredibly shitty unforeseen consequences.
Laissez-faire, faggots.
>OpenStreetMaps
Putting open in your name does not make you open. HERE is the only alternative to Google Maps.
>gets split up
Why would it happen, they have been doing better than ever.
What about Verily
But Google is founded and supported by government, isn't it? They also have subsidy and tax relief.
Laissez-faire doesn't work here from the beginning.
>messing with American elections
Oh boy, this is gonna get real nasty
nationalizing makes otherwise transient problems, a permanent fixture.
it entrenches an unjust centralization of power, perpetuates authoritarianism, and enables future abuses.
ideally, people would leave the oligopoly on their own volition - but they (largely) do not as it leads to immediate and severe downsides a la "prisoner's dillema."
if mohammed will not come to the mountain, the mountain will come to mohammed; it is perfectly reasonable to expedite a market realignment to decentralization through antitrust and monopoly laws.
impatience is no virtue, but life is short.
With a ryder van full of fertilizer lmao
Oh and also then covered in concrete and used to usher in the era of AskJeeves domination
>But Google is founded and supported by government, isn't it?
Only indirectly through tax incentives. It does not receive any direct funding.
>They also have subsidy and tax relief.
Only the latter, AFAIK. What kind of subsidies are they receiving?
>Laissez-faire doesn't work here from the beginning.
I half-agree, but I also think that taxation is theft and should never have been there in the first place. In other words, intervening in the economy, by placing taxes on other companies, have left these companies at a market disadvantage. If anything, this should serve as a warning of the consequences of tampering with the free market.
>Google Search/Maps/Images/News
It's hard to put these together since this is what they're accused of abusing as a monopoly.
Google Search ranks Google Maps results higher than the rest.
Like if you search for "Thai restaurant", you'll get Google Maps results over Yelp or TripAdvisor or any other food review site.
That's the hard part about Google's Monopoly. The only way to make it so they can't abuse their search monopoly is by saying they can't offer any services besides search.
>nationalized
This is the USA, not a shithole.
>how should successful companies be split up?
Socialism.
>government intervention in the free market helped create the current situation
>the answer is obviously more government intervention