Posted on 09/21/2011 4:30:48 PM PDT by george76
Moments after Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told senators "we get it" in regard to regulatory scrutiny, the search giant's rivals refuted the point.
"Google doesn't get it," said Thomas O. Barnett, a lawyer for Expedia, which fought Google's acquisition of flight data provider ITA Software. "Google won't even admit reality."
Barnett said the company is expanding its market power, growing in mobile phones and mobile search, in particular. And it's using that power to direct users to its services, rather than penalizing rivals who are direct competitors.
Some of the more direct criticism came from Nextag Chief Executive Jeff Katz. He testified that Google's results for product searches favor its own sites, not competitors such as Nextag.
"Google doesn't play fair," Katz said. "Google rigs its results."
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We must seek a government solution to a free market problem /s
I’ve heard of this ‘google’, but have NEVER used it.
I prefer dogpile.com, heard owlbore was on the board at gogle, don’t wanna patronize them
SO WHAT? If I don't like the way Google feeds me results, rival, I MIGHT consider using you. Or I might use your search engine if I'm not happy with Google's corporate persona. But I sure as heckfire will not use YOU, rival, if you run to Congress to take out a competitor - something Congress has no business doing, BTW.
It’s not completely a free market problem. Google got its brand name dominance through a media whisper campaign, which is secret, and a form of propaganda.
The media entities that participated in that whisper campaign share google’s leftist politics, and also engage in other similar manipulations.
If THAT information was widespread, THEN it would be a free market problem. Until then, the propaganda has caused what libertarian economists call a market inefficiency.
Seems like Google is taking the same approach a certain Redmond company did years ago. How did that work out?
Why was Mike Lee acting like a nanny stater?
Dogpile is actually a consolidated search tool- it forwards your search to several search engines, including Google.
Check out Blecco.com.
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