What is Digg?Sponsored by Guitar Center
When Heavy-handed Hints Fail--Guitar Center Wishlist Posters view!
guitarcenter.com - Cool personalized designs send a friendly reminder that a new Stratocaster would rock, thanks.
158 Comments
- Jaggd, on 02/22/2009, -2/+129If the yahoo homepage was as clean looking and fast to load as google, i might consider using it. I don't need 50 different things like news headlines and ***** loading when i am just trying to do a quick search. The other search engines results might be just as good as google, but the homepage's are cluttered.
- govsucks, on 02/22/2009, -17/+92Government: AT&T, you are to big, we must break you apart.
Government: Google, you are to big we must break you apart.
Government: Every man, woman and child must participate in the ponzi scheme called social security that we have mismanaged and is going broke and is also the very definition of a monopoly. If you don't participate we will imprison you. BTW, those big companies are evil!
Government: Hypocrisy is OK, we're from the government, people expect it. - richlizard24, on 02/22/2009, -1/+63Everyone loves MrBabyMan, until he's too big. Antitrust scrutiny is a growing worry for MrBabyMan as his market share gains accelerate.
- specialK16, on 02/22/2009, -3/+52@Syphon.
Boy oh boy I sure need those 0.58kb's. - TheCake, on 02/22/2009, -12/+54If the New York Times didn't make me log in to read this story, I might have read it. I suspect they don't see the irony here.
I'll go view Google's cached version now... - Darkhacker, on 02/22/2009, -2/+39There is http://search.yahoo.com/ but unfortunately, that's not the default page one sees when going to yahoo.com.
- TheIndigoSky, on 02/22/2009, -1/+31That's the #1 reason google is my preferred engine. My second reason is that I do generally find their results turn out to be what I am looking for. Other companies, learn from this!
- JoaoPe, on 02/22/2009, -0/+25Google it
- Spoomeister, on 02/22/2009, -1/+20Government: Banks, you are too big to fail, we must keep you together.
- 2ach, on 02/22/2009, -0/+18yea if Google was run like our government, they'd have gone out of business a long time ago
- SemiSarcastic, on 02/22/2009, -6/+23Trust me, by the time generation Y turns 40 most of their kids are going to see Google as an evil corporation because it's never cool to like what your parents liked or were ever a part of. Just look at Microsoft.
- spepin, on 02/22/2009, -0/+17I don't really use Google for speed or anything, because most sites are fast as is and return my searches as quickly as I need them. Although, all the other sites are covered in useless ***** I don't need.
- xGrill, on 02/22/2009, -2/+18People say that, but seriously, would you ever actually use the other yahoo services. I like google because that is where my calendar, mail, and docs are, all in one place.
Anyways, the author of this article clearly does not understand what a monopoly is.
Google is not in anyway stopping anyone from entering the industry, the small company example he gives will lose the lawsuit, it just seems like they are trying to make a buck from a large corp. - yuravian, on 02/22/2009, -0/+15@SpecialK:
Maybe he's on dialup?
Wait, no, dialup is still fast enough that .58kB is fast. Syphon, I think you ISP is providing you pre-90's bandwidth. - SemiSarcastic, on 02/22/2009, -4/+19Then how come I don't have to log in when I haven't even signed up for any of their services?
- rald84, on 02/22/2009, -1/+16you forgot
Government: Microsoft, you are to big we must break you apart. - orky7, on 02/22/2009, -2/+15what ever it may be but google make the life on internet easier and faster......
- 2ach, on 02/22/2009, -1/+13In America, capitalism is all great until a company becomes successful then it's a "monopoly."
- Kazbaeden, on 02/22/2009, -1/+12People actually go to google's homepage? I just type in the search box at the top right of my browser. I can't remember the last time I've been to google.com not to just look at a holiday logo.
- sparkplug890, on 02/22/2009, -1/+12where's Cuil?!
- Sonixunite, on 02/22/2009, -2/+13They didn't ask me to sign in.
- Ymeg, on 02/22/2009, -2/+13The concept of anti-trust suits makes absolutely no sense.
- Abomonog, on 02/22/2009, -0/+10Sometimes they do. The last NYtimes article I tried to read demanded a log on to read. I did not log on or read it. This time it did not.
The NYtimes servers are funny that way.
Bug me not has many logons for the NYtimes site. - deweyhewson, on 02/22/2009, -6/+16You need to learn to search better...
- Sonixunite, on 02/22/2009, -0/+9In the recycling bin.
- ptheroux, on 02/22/2009, -0/+9Customers are suffering so much because it is so difficult to find another search engine to use...
- rald84, on 02/22/2009, -1/+10Google Atlantic, Google Pacific, Google South, Google Southwest etc etc
- sloppychris, on 02/22/2009, -0/+9Funny how the companies who file antitrust suits always seem to be competitors with poorer quality products.
- xdarkfluxx, on 02/22/2009, -2/+11What themoderngeek said.
Circuit City failed because it couldn't make money. Breaking up BestBuy would not have saved Circuity City.
Companies should not be punished for succeeding. - deweyhewson, on 02/22/2009, -0/+8This is essentially the same public relations path that other tech giants followed.
It happened to IBM. Then it happened to Microsoft. Now it's happening to Google. - mastereuclid, on 02/22/2009, -0/+7Google isn't attacking other search engines. People are choosing to use it. It was the best choice early on, which made it grow a customer base and has only had a cascading effect ever since
- shadydentist, on 02/22/2009, -0/+7I mean, I'm locked into my operating system because of its software compatibility. I can switch my search engine whenever I want.
- govsucks, on 02/22/2009, -1/+8HAH! Right on Spoonmeister.
More hypocrisy from government. - themoderngeek, on 02/22/2009, -4/+11Wait a moment, my fine friend. What you are saying is "big companies should be broken up." How do companies become big? By being very successful. So what you're actually saying is, "companies should try not to be successful, and if they are, they should be broken up." So, if they should try not to be successful, what should they try to be? A failure?
- jggube, on 02/22/2009, -0/+6Ironic that they have some of the best front-end engineers in the industry, or at least had, (like Steve Saunders).
- JingleHymrShmit, on 02/22/2009, -1/+7my question is how would Google be broken up like AT&T was?
- Jordan117, on 02/22/2009, -0/+6I will never understand this argument. Google is huge because people choose it over every other search engine, because their services are superior. It's not like with Microsoft where they packaged their browser in with every commercial PC. If you don't like Google, all you have to do is type something else into the address bar. And maybe AdBlock their ads if you're adamant about it.
- Abomonog, on 02/22/2009, -1/+6I use Google because it is the best site for searching and without being pummeled with ads or *****.
Yahoo and the ilk would do better by following Googles example.
P.S. How does one monopolize a free service niche? - xdarkfluxx, on 02/22/2009, -2/+7Where in govsucks' comment mentions taxes?
- ctfoley, on 02/22/2009, -0/+5emailowndme: you are saying it is good to have more, less efficient companies. but those less efficient companies are bound to fail, leaving... a new big corporation to do the job
- yuravian, on 02/22/2009, -0/+5If you are capping because you load a webpage that is .58 kB bigger too many times, you have a terrible cap. See my previous post.
- pw378, on 02/22/2009, -0/+5But all the revenue is in Ads, which pays for all the others.... Impossible to split up.
Google is like a grandparent that gives you lots of nice things as long as you come visit them once in while. - inactive, on 02/22/2009, -1/+6They all love it until it gets too big...
- pwdrskier, on 02/22/2009, -1/+5u just noticed this. there was a front page one with 65 the other day
- McReynolds, on 02/22/2009, -2/+6Who in there right mind would always want to type search.yahoo.com into there browser 7 times a day when they want an answer they expect any search engine to have as a top result.
If yahoo could do some testing and bite the pill to move its clean search page to yahoo.com then move the portal to a sub-domain they could get a spike in search market share.. - TheMachine1, on 02/22/2009, -0/+4The government has been allowing AT&T to essentially recombine lately.
- pwdrskier, on 02/22/2009, -1/+5except a trust is formulated by companies in order to control the market. if its a monopoly its not purposeful because they havent bought other companies to reinforce their market share they just have have a superior product.
GMAIL ANYONE!? - pw378, on 02/22/2009, -0/+4I know what response your expecting, and I won't say it... I really want to, but I won't.
- pyroguy56011, on 02/22/2009, -1/+5Let me explain to you why it's good for working Americans for the government to imprison everybody who is rich and give all their money to you. That doesn't make it morally okay, nor does it make ***** sense.
- inactive, on 02/22/2009, -3/+7people should only worry if google raised & maintained it's marketshare using illegal, monopolising means. like microsoft.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 163 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is