Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: 'People are waking up to its power'

Barry Lynn has spent years studying the growing power of tech giants such as Google, and asking if they are monopolies. He believes the answer is yes

Every second of every day Google processes over 40,000 search queries - that's about 3.5bn questions a day or 1.2tn a year. But there's one question that Google apparently doesn't want answered: is Google a monopoly?

Barry Lynn, until this week a senior fellow at Washington thinktank the New America Foundation, has spent years studying the growing power of tech giants like Google and Facebook. He believes the answer is yes. And that opinion, he argues, has cost him his job.