Towards AGI … and the continued dominance of Google? …

At our core, we stand on the success of our local businesses. We do not stand on the profits that Google will make, we stand on the jobs provided by those in our communities. A healthy society is full of people who create new businesses. Some will fail, but others will thrive. The last thing we need is for companies to develop monopolies and which undercut our small businesses. And so innovation is often at the core of helping a small business thrive against its much larger competitor. But if a large company just underbids, and make loses on it, it is not a fair playing field.

One of the greatest worries is when a large company cross-subsidies from a profitable area into a loss-making area, in order for them to gain another foothold and squeeze out the competition. Increasingly we see this, and where the large Cloud service companies such as Google and Facebook are increasingly taking over market segments and dominating them.

Google, themselves, actually have a bit of a track record in trying out different areas to see if there is a business model, and then leaving them (and thus leaving many with the problem in how to move away from their service). And so Google has Internet Searches, Chrome, Android OS, YouTube, DoubleClick, Google Pixel, Google Maps, Google News, Google Images, Google Scholar, Google Flights, and so many…