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Google adsense has about 41% of the market: http://www.perfectleads.com/marketshare/google-adsense Still no monopoly.

No, that's actually pretty divided, with them. I mean, Google has 35%, and Facebook about 20%, but Google is on the decline slightly, and there's a bunch of competitors, so if they start charging extortionate prices, someone will undercut them. And this is just US ad revenue, I don't have global...

Not really. See, Google isn't in the search engine market, not really, as people using search aren't google customers, as we don't pay Google anything. Google is in the advertisement market, which is much more equally distributed.

Ah, sorry. I misunderstood you then. But I think it's reasonable strategy for Google to use this as a threat to discourage other countries from doing it.

No, it wouldn't. the aggregation google gives is a bonus to the companies being aggregated. Why should it pay any money for it? It's like a guidebook company having to pay the people it recommends.

Good. The law is bullshit, and google has the absolute right to not offer services. Note that Google's news aggregation is the reason many news sites are getting clicks at all. It's one thing to ban this, as one thinks that it makes google too powerful. It's a completely different and bullshit...