I am starting to think of Googles position as a monopoly. It has become extremely hard to not use Google AdWords for marketing your website, and most businesses will just fail not doing so. I remember from a coupe of years Micorosft got in trouble with this and was fased with the DOJ. I no both MS and Google are trying to improve their services but I wander when somebody is going to take on Google in court. I can no longer see the difference between Googles position and that of Ms Windows in terms of binding their users and crushing the competition.

What's your idea on this?!

Good question!

I don;t know if they are breaking any rules though. I bet Google has a team of lawyers on this to see if all their products are conform laws. Also I think Google still has a good reputation with a lot of people They have not yet been recognized as people that make a lot of money in a way that may be frowned upon. I wander how long this takes, but considering they are giving away most of their products for free and are actually only making money from advertisers, which is a group that has money anyway and actually loves adWords, I don't think this will happen any time soon!

More views on the issue?

It is tough to say that Google has a monopoly mainly because there are so many competitors in the field. They really aren't trying to muscle anyone out either.

I think that much of Google's monopoly comes from its competitors not really finding an alternative to page rank.