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> Can you imagine being in the middle of some work, Googling a term, only to be hit with "Sorry, we're over the government limit and can't fulfill your search"

Programmers are often overconfident and think they can implement anything... except when they have to follow common sense regulation in which case it's always impossible or they come up with ridiculous straw men like you just have.

There are a million ways to curtail anti-competitive behavior. One, on the spot, example would be: not to stop people from making searches, but instead to tax at 100% everything over the 30% of searches.




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