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> Let’s force Google to be like every other company in needing to constantly extract money from every project quarter by quarter. I think you're actually making the argument for breaking up Google. Their search monopoly is so powerful and so profitable, that they can afford to just throw money away on hundreds of terrible side projects.
Having lots of profit just means it is a good business. It doesn’t demonstrate that it is a monopoly nor that it is a harmful monopoly. There are plenty of other highly profitable areas of business. They just usually take their earnings instead of investing them in new things.
* Large profits don't make Google a monopoly * Large profits don't make Google evil
However, no one in this thread asserted otherwise. On the other hand, above you assert that large profits alone are enough to qualify Google as a "good business." It's very easy to come up with historical examples of businesses that made lots of money, but which no one would describe as "good."
Google is a monopoly, not because it makes lots of money, but because it is a monopoly. It captures the vast majority of internet search traffic.