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Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search

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Pollock, R.

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The rapid growth of online search and its centrality to the ecology of the Internet raise many questions for economists to answer: Why is the search engine market so concentrated and will it evolve towards monopoly? What implications does this concentration have for consumers, search engines, and advertisers? Does search require regulation and if so in what form? This paper supplies empirical and theoretical material with which to examine these questions. In particular, we (a) show that the already large levels of concentration are likely to continue (b) identify the consequences, negative and positive, of this outcome (c) discuss the regulatory interventions that policy-makers could use to address these.

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Paper provided by Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge in its series Cambridge Working Papers in Economics with number 0921.

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Keywords: Search Engine; Regulation; Competition; Antitrust; Technology;

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L40 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - General
L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General
L50 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - General

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