Internet search engines and two-sided markets

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The author thanks the anonymous referee for useful comments. The author gratefully acknowledges research support from Google. The opinions and analyses in this paper are entirely of the author’s. He would also like to thank Danny Sokol and an anonymous referee for comments on the previous version of this paper. Comments at the National Conference on Economics of Competition Law, 2016 are also gratefully acknowledged. A part of the manuscript was developed when the author was George C Lamb Fellow at Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Hospitality of the Kenan Institute is gratefully acknowledged.