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Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by Zakuzaa »

yanw wrote: post #37
aamar wrote: post #28

The central question seems to be the following, articulated most precisely by Mike Lee (R-UT): even if the organic search results are entirely unbiased, Google also programmatically (via "Google Universal Search", the system that organizes the overall search page) inserts specific links to other Google pages--such as Places, Maps, Shopping, or News--in very prominent positions. There are competitors for all of those…

Google is free for users and free to anyone wanting to get in their index, so they do not owe any self proclaimed competitor anything and that is the crux of it, the law is on their side, you cannot monopolize "free" and all this politicians' propaganda is waste of time and tax payer dollars..

You clearly have very little understanding of how antitrust laws work.

Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by lukeschlather »

kposehn wrote: post #38
hastalabasura wrote: post #27

Susan Creighton knows her shit.

She is smart, but she did skate around the question of scraping. They asked whether Google had scraped content, but instead she attempted to change the question to whether or not it is scraping when they show the excerpt about the site in results - not whether they had scraped Yelp reviews.

I think that's the crux of it though. Of course Google does scraping. They'll even give you a full cache of a page if you ask for it.

Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by [deleted] »

Zakuzaa wrote: post #41
yanw wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is free for users and free to anyone wanting to get in their index, so they do not owe any self proclaimed competitor anything and that is the crux of it, the law is on their side, you cannot monopolize "free" and all this politicians' propaganda is waste of time and tax payer dollars..

You clearly have very little understanding of how antitrust laws work.

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Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by coderdude »

Zakuzaa wrote: post #41
yanw wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is free for users and free to anyone wanting to get in their index, so they do not owe any self proclaimed competitor anything and that is the crux of it, the law is on their side, you cannot monopolize "free" and all this politicians' propaganda is waste of time and tax payer dollars..

You clearly have very little understanding of how antitrust laws work.

He shares the point of view of the person defending Google (she's a former anti-trust investigator?). If you can freely and instantly switch from Google to Bing then you cannot claim they have a monopoly. If you don't like Google's results there is nothing locking the consumer into Google except their own choice.

Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by DevX101 »

rmrm wrote: post #32

I think Google would be well served if Schmidt had a little more Steve Jobs in him. Not a lot, as I think Jobs might get so frustrated he'd melt down, but a little. Eric makes everything sound somehow slightly sinister, even when it isn't. When asked about something like maps and places the correct answer is: We realized that is what people wanted in response to their queries. We looked around, and the other map prod…

Perceived arrogance doesn't go over too well in these type of hearings.

Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by melling »

I'm going to get burned for this comment but ...

Microsoft has had a desktop monopoly for 20 years. They have 90% desktop market share and people don't complain about that. They destroyed their competition yet people complain because Google has 65% market share on a product that people can leave overnight. I'm not sure why people get bent out of shape over Google.

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