news.cnet.com— In less time it takes for some government investigations, the search company has gone from start-up to accused threat to Internet competition. Fair or not, this is Google 2.0.
Sep 28, 2009View in Crawl 4
article quote "Unlike the famous technology antitrust cases of the last century--IBM, AT&T, Intel, and Microsoft--Google has not drawn government scrutiny based on allegations of past conduct. Rather, the focus is on what the company might do or is about to do, which should be both comforting and troubling for Google executives."that's bad for google - without any precedent to go by, how can government officials or regulators ever know whether Google actually crosses the line when it comes to consumer choice or other anti-trust breaches?
We should not enact legislation that prevents others from contributing to innovation, not only will they not compete, but Google will slow or stop innovation if it had no competition.
michdeSep 28, 2009
Welcome to reality big brother G
yocouchdiggaSep 29, 2009
They need to step off and let Google do its thing.
dolorousSep 29, 2009
article quote "Unlike the famous technology antitrust cases of the last century--IBM, AT&T, Intel, and Microsoft--Google has not drawn government scrutiny based on allegations of past conduct. Rather, the focus is on what the company might do or is about to do, which should be both comforting and troubling for Google executives."that's bad for google - without any precedent to go by, how can government officials or regulators ever know whether Google actually crosses the line when it comes to consumer choice or other anti-trust breaches?
jshpro2Sep 29, 2009
We should not enact legislation that prevents others from contributing to innovation, not only will they not compete, but Google will slow or stop innovation if it had no competition.