Google boss dodges questions over search market before admitting to 95 per cent share | Sky News Australia

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Google Australia Managing Director Melanie Silva dodged questions on the overwhelming dominance of Google’s search share, before admitting to holding 95 per cent of the nation’s search engine market.

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Speaking at the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, Ms Silva claimed Google faced “considerable competition” in the monetizable marketing space. She listed Amazon, Gumtree and eBay as serious competitors for Google. However, when questioned further by Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg the Managing Director of Google admitted the ACC had reported Google held a 95 share of general searches.

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Must have been taking notes while watching the LNP in question time.

Google can fuck right off, Australia start using DuckDuckGo auspol

If (C.I.A SPIES) GOOGLE wants to play tit for Tat FINE! We'll use YAHOO!! No lo$$ to us! BIG LO$$ FOR GOOGLE SPIES!

Funny how this is never a problem when discussing media ownership in Australia. 🙄

I didn’t think the federal government gave/allowed that much power to companies in Australia. Propaganda machine?

The fact still remains - it's the best product.

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