Google wird häufig als marktmächtig bezeichnet. Grund dafür ist ein mutmaßlicher Marktanteil von über 90% in manchen … Ländern. Eine gründliche Marktabgrenzung im wettbewerbsrechtlichen Sinne liegt dieser Aussage aber nicht zugrunde. Was umfasst … Debatte oft glaubhaft gemacht wird. Die Marktabgrenzung ist vielmehr abhängig von der zugrundeliegenden wettbewerblichen …

Google is supposed to be the dominant player in most search markets around the world. But what is a search market? To …

accurately, Google, the policy scolds’ bête noir of the day) as an “essential facility,” and necessitating government … complex arguments in favor of their positions, and the European Commission has even opened a formal investigation into Google … has yet claimed that Google should offer up links to competing general search engines as a remedy for its perceived market …

theoretical, but perhaps imminent, enforcement action against Google. Close scrutiny of the complex economics of Google … antitrust error, coupled with the uncertain economics of Google’s innovative conduct, will nevertheless yield a costly … intervention. The point is not that we know that Google’s conduct is procompetitive, but rather that the very uncertainty …

number of quarters alleging the digital advertising market is monopolized by its largest participant: Google. Most … to Google’s online display advertising business. Most recently, a group of U.S. senators introduced a bill that would … break up Google’s advertising business (as well as that of other large display advertising intermediaries such as Facebook …