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		moate on March 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants ... You silo the search engine segment of the business as one company, the advertising segment as a separate business, etc etc. Alphabet is more than just the Google search engine at this point.

pnloyd on March 8, 2019 [–]

Wouldn't the loss of close integration between Google's ads business and services decrease their respective values though?

mechagodzilla on March 8, 2019 | [–]

Ideally it would directly and immediately decrease their values by the amount they were effectively extracting due to their monopoly position.

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