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True, that would really hurt them. I can't even immediately come up with any reason why they couldn't do that, ad blockers are a very legit piece of software after all. Given how much sense this makes, what's been stopping MS from doing it so far?
Ad blockers create an unlicensed derivative work of the copyrighted works that are received, and they could likely be sued for that.
Purely on competition I think Google Docs is a weak spot. IMO it's pretty bad and has not been improving. Microsoft's Office Online looks pretty good. As inept as Microsoft is it would be unwise for Google to let them get a foot in the door. They might end up regretting the years they decided not to make any significant improvements to Google Docs.
I don't think advertising is going to be able to sustain Google indefinitely. As more tech-savvy users get on the web, their tolerance for advertisements will dwindle, along with advertisers' return. Google probably knows this, which is why they've moved into other markets like Android and Google's office tools. As far as search goes, I think they're either going to be king forever as we know it, or a 'better' search…
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True, that would really hurt them. I can't even immediately come up with any reason why they couldn't do that, ad blockers are a very legit piece of software after all. Given how much sense this makes, what's been stopping MS from doing it so far?
Ad blockers create an unlicensed derivative work of the copyrighted works that are received, and they could likely be sued for that.
This is why Google wants their own browser, this is why they want to control cell phones and other mobile devices.
How about Microsoft including an ad blocker in the next Windows Update.
If web pages and web services were to all completely expose their information as RDF and embed rich metadata inside bodies of text the need for Google's fancy AI and Entity extraction would be none.
Google's bread and butter is advertising. That advertising is driven from their search domination - their ability to extract meaning from web pages and match that meaning up to searched terms. Semantic web completely commoditizes that function - if you can crawl, you can search.
It doesn't even have to be related to search. A scandal involving Gmail or Google Voice would have a large impact on search.
How about Microsoft including an ad blocker in the next Windows Update.
That said, yeah, this would hurt Google bad if it somehow happened.
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True, that would really hurt them. I can't even immediately come up with any reason why they couldn't do that, ad blockers are a very legit piece of software after all. Given how much sense this makes, what's been stopping MS from doing it so far?
Ad blockers create an unlicensed derivative work of the copyrighted works that are received, and they could likely be sued for that.