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| Authored by: PJ on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 10:32 AM EDT |
This appears to me to be political in
nature, the attacks. Microsoft pays a group like
FairSearch to do what it is doing.
It's very much like when shills show up here
and pick at every word I write, finding fault.
It's what they do, and openness isn't the solution.
The lawyers will win in the end, I think, because
first of all Google is not a monopoly in the
legal sense. Just go somewhere else. DuckDuckGo
exists, and there are others.
The sheer stupidness of suggesting that people
who are successful can't show potential users
another service that they have is astonishing.
Would you really like to use any of the
complainants' products?
People use Google products because they like
them. I personally am selective because I like
my privacy, so I know you can be on the Internet
every day without using Google.
So the arguments are specious. Look at Apple,
how people are in danger of falling off cliffs
because their competing maps service is so bad.
Do you want to use it?
I don't. But if I buy an iPhone, do I get
a choice? Is Apple not a monopoly in smartphones
in the US?
If the FTC wants to get busy, how about that?
How about looking into the conspiracy, as I see
it, that Microsoft has put together to go after
Google not only at the FTC but everywhere? In
courts. In regulatory bodies, all over the world.
How about the devilish deal with Nokia and MOSAID.
Anybody looking into that patent strategy as an
anticompetitive move? How do you like the smartphone
patent wars? And who is the one being attacked,
over and over? It's Android and Google.
Say, how come Oracle joined FairSearch? Is Oracle
being distriminated against by Google Search?
And in the US, antitrust law is supposed to
protect customers, not competitors. What customers
are complaining? I'm sure Microsoft can rustle
up some dead people again to write to the FTC, but
other than that, people who don't like GOogle use
something else. And Google Search is free, so where
is the harm to you and me?
That's right. There isn't any.
So they should call a spade a spade, if they
want to be open, and just lay out in greater detail
than I can all the moves Microsoft and its running
dogs are making, and let the public see the real
story.
I doubt the lawyers will let them, but it would
work if it's done in a courtroom, not in press
releases, with undisputable evidence.
Wasn't it useful with Jonathan Schwartz told us
about Microsoft's execs coming to him to try to
shake down Sun with patents? Tell people how
the deal really goes down, so people see how
Microsoft really plays the game.
I do think if enough of the public feels moved to write to
the FTC, it would help, so I encourage everyone to do it, and ask you friends
and family and any organizations to do it too. The FTC is hearing only from
FairSearch types. Let them hear from the public, the folks they are allegedly
supposed to protect.
And one final thing I'd highlight if I were Google: you do not want the
government to decide editorial content for anybody. And that is what is
happening here. Google has the right to decide what it wishes to highlight,
because it's goal is to provide the best info it can find. If
the government gets between us and Google, it's a slippery
slope to censorship, and frankly, I don't see it as Constitutional. The
government is not allowed to tell Americans what they can say or write. Period.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 12:38 PM EDT |
By simply framing their results as an expression of "free speech"...or
their own representation of what they think the user would find is the best,
given that this user is free to employ another search engine any time.<p>
How about that?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: mcinsand on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 08:45 AM EDT |
To not face a suit, Google would probably have to fold, but I think that they
have gone farther than any company in history to ensure that they will win any
suit they face. They are the company behind Android, but they give it away.
They have the number one search engine, but they don't try to prevent other
search engines from using their results (I like dogpile, which is basically a
front-end page that uses Google and several other search engines concurrently).
The problem is that Google is competing on performance, which is something that
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