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A clean Google breakup seems to look like :

1 - Search,

2 - Youtube,

3 - Gmail

The rest can go anywhere, as they don't seem to be powerful enough to control a market (although that may change in the future).

For Amazon, it seems clean to do it like this:

1 - AWS,

2 - Amazon (shopping website + logistics)

Audible & IMDB are nice, but to me not big enough to be trouble. Audible might be, but I don't know enough about that market.

Facebook seems straightforward:

1 - Facebook,

2 - Instagram,

3 - Whatsapp

Apple would be hard to break up, but allowing other stores on their devices might be all that's needed.

Microsoft seems to be under the radar compared to 20 years ago. Splitting Office and Windows seems less important to me now than it did back then.



> A clean Google breakup seems to look like:

> 1 - Search,

> 2 - Youtube,

> 3 - Gmail

And where does advertising go? I doubt any of those 3 are profitable on their own.


Search. It doesn’t really work without it.

Plus, that allows YouTube to have its own advertising, or a third party advertising network.




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