“If you want Google search, they’re going to shove Google Plus at you pretty hard, so the consumer’s forced to take the product they don’t want to get the product they want,” said Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School who studies antitrust law and the Internet.
-- The New York Times published this oddly incorrect assertion from Tim Wu in a story about how Google Plus represents... well, might be something slightly different from what Google has always done. I can't imagine either Wu or Claire Cain Miller (the story's author) actually think that's how Google Search works, given that anyone can go to Google.com and, you know, search for stuff. There's got to be context here that went missing along the way.