Google is Crushing the Internet
I don&#x27;t have a strong opinion about whether or not google should be regulated or not. However, this guy doesn&#x27;t seem appreciate the scale of the difficulties that google solved and how much better google was than the competition. They almost single-handedly transformed the internet into a useful tool. Altavista and yahoo were like looking up information in a card catalog in comparison. It wasn&#x27;t just a first mover advantage. And they followed it up by releasing, an ads platform that made everyone else look like amateur hour, a mail product that was far better than hotmail, a mapping tool much better than MapQuest,
and a web browser that was far better than ie or Firefox.<p>They are in the position they&#x27;re in because they solved a lot of difficult problems and made it look easy.  If we ever get to the point that we need as a society to rein them in, we should do it with a full understanding of what they&#x27;ve accomplished.<p>It&#x27;s bizarre to accuse the company that made the internet into what it is today of somehow crushing it.