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Google and AOL, (for instance) take over alot of other sites, as does Yahoo and the other Internet Superpowers... will this lead to more or less competition.. leading to better quality on the internet, (after all it is just business), or are these powers too stong and wil the internet get less varied?... just like with when www.games.com was taken over by AOL Games, it becamse more like AOL Games and less unique... and when eBay bought PayPal it was tied in to eBay and came with it increased fees; but nobody really competes, except a few others who are trying to get up there like MoneyBookers; which are hardly comparable!...
Or will, much like Google, these internet superpowers cause the web to become less varied, more (even more!) commercialised (as companies have to compete), and support sbecome almost negligible, like with Google and Yahoo and then the company is so big they dont care about individual cpompanies.... but yeah, how could YouTube decline $1.5bn?
It is the result of the .com boom in the 90s, where AOL, Yahoo etc got off their feet... It will be hard to get anywhere big without them stepping infront of you now... it really is just a battel between themselves, as Internet Supoerpowers...
I have to agree with George Lucas on this what we don't need is another monopoly on Mayfair and Park Lane like what my 'friend' James did but on the internet.