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Google was made possible by US antitrust turning a blind eye towards Google's acquisition of DoubleClick and YouTube. Considering Alphabet is dominating both search and ads and also offers services via searches, the EU commission already hinted at a breakup as a viable measure to lead the web out of its misery.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_...



Google's market cap was already at over $100B with billions in revenue and hundreds of millions in profits when it bought DoubleClick and YouTube.

So while those were big aquisitions (Around $3B and $2B) they only accelerated the process of Google turning into the web's central player. It was already set in motion before the aquisitions.


The large market cap is exactly why they shouldn't have been allowed to acquire either. (Same goes for Facebook with Instagram, Whatapp).




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