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What can Google do? What is the possible negative long term impact here?

We're talking about a website and a phone OS. You can start using another search engine in five minutes and will probably replace your phone in a year or two anyway. There are plenty of alternatives, including forks of Android that will likely work with your current device.

Gmail at least owns its users' addresses. But here they have nothing except being useful. Local grocery store has me in a tighter grip.



> What can Google do?

Destroy any Internet company whose users do not go directly to their site URL.

Destroy any new Internet company who relies on search results for users to find them.




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