re: Google monopoly is crushing Trip Adviser and Expedia.... on purpose

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I’m a free market guy and agree they do provide the best services, and ultimately that’s why they are so big, but it’s scary as heck to see.

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Amazon

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Amazon’s Web Services has become THE 800 pound gorilla of the unseen internet. AWS is larger than its 13 largest competitors combined. Amazon makes more than twice the revenue (and profit) from its digital services than its shopping website.

Watch Netflix? You’re streaming from an AWS server.
Use a bank? Chances are their systems are on AWS servers.
See a movie in a theater? That was digitally delivered from AWS.

NASA, the European Space Agency, Uber, Lyft, the NYSE, McDonalds, the US State Department, the USDA, the CDC, airlines, hotels, rail companies, ... the list goes on and on and on.

And now Microsoft just won the largest digital contract ever handed out by a government. That government? The USA. What department? The DoD.

Side note: Microsoft also does all of the back of house computing/storage/cloud work for Apple. So that app you downloaded from the Apple App Store on your Apple iPhone was delivered by computers running software designed by Microsoft.




People would be shocked if they realized just how easy it would be for even one these companies to manipulate governments and populations.