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The new owners could the rights in writing and for x years.

...so USA recognizes them as legal and as something of value, otherwise they'd auction, say, seized cocaine.

For example, it's virtually guaranteed that some website's rankings went up today, and they happened to start using AdWords today. Likewise, it's virtually guaranteed that some web…

A site I had used to get over 2000 visitors a day from Google, now it gets 20 to 30 a day. All the rest is going to Google ads and to a few sites that are brands and just so happen…

"The implication of this report was that eBay was going to drop AdWords as a channel and focus its efforts on organic search engine optimization. So how did that work out for them?…

If Google became as large as AT&T and Comcast they'd be worst. I'm sure At&T and Comcast would support making Google's bread and butter (say Adwords or tracking data) open source o…

Apparently not...Google--the fair and balanced search engine--decided that ads and Google's own properties are better. Have you noticed Google's earnings reports that mention a 20+…

Useless article by Danny Sullivan, his columns have offered zero advice for years now. He knows nothing special these days. So MetaFilter has been getting some "help" from Google's…

My guess is that most people will just close the window and FB can claim to care about privacy (...as much as McD's cares about your cholesterol)

You miss the point completely: If Google ads an extra ad you might lose 20% of your traffic even if your rank stays the same. Or if they ad youtube videos on the display, or books,…

Especially now that Google is a "content provider," sites like Metafilter have to battle Youtube, Google+ etc for ranking. Guess who's winning? Traffic is going away from other sit…

Resorting to Hitler right away? How about a person who cannot a job because of a certain stupid act from 30 years ago that keeps showing up on Google search? Even credit reports ar…

The scale is what I find amazing....That is the challenge I see Google facing, on the one hand AdSense is a thing, on the other its prone to fraud. I don't really feel sorry for Go…

Chuck, the problem--and IMO it's legit--is that Google allows you sign up, you earn some money and then for no explained reason you lose all of it as they close they your account. …

>> "This Steve Berman guy behind the suit was a Microsoft lawyer, it's notable becase another Microsoft lawyer tried and failed to sue Google on ad/antitrust grounds a few years ba…

DDG is my default SE. Once in a while i ave to go to other SE (Bing second, Google third) but it's a small price to pay to give them a shot. Hopefully the market share will be more…

IIRC, large customers--and China's Govt is one of them--have access to the Windows source code so safety and security probably aren't the top concern. They can surely audit the cod…

What others said (operate in US = must obey US laws0 AND the fact that they can freeze out any bank out of the US financial industry.

A year and a half ago, we woke up one day to see a 40% decrease in revenue and traffic to Ask MetaFilter, likely the result of ongoing Google index updates. We scoured the web and …

Frankly a bit worrying that Matt Cutts doesn't seem to get the fairly straightforward point Oh he gets it, it's his job to act like he doesn't and to change the subject "...Ummm...…

Sure you did Matt, we're also seeing how the only good link as far as Google is concerned is an Adwords one. Can you stop insulting our intelligence, we see how every quarter your …

and how much does a loaf of bread, gasoline, rent etc etc cost there? It's all relative

How would a German official break up Google? Search separate from everything else. but in that bad case scenario, Google would just lose some small fraction of its business. German…

That's BS. First off, AT&T already has a business model! And they're making billions from it, too. Google already "snoops" on you, FB snoops on you, so why not AT&T for a discount?…