Comments on: Google and the antitrust inquiry: Fighting shadows http://gigaom.com/2011/10/05/google-and-the-antitrust-inquiry-fighting-shadows/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris http://gigaom.com/2011/10/05/google-and-the-antitrust-inquiry-fighting-shadows/#comment-662196 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:11:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=415737#comment-662196 “Does it restrict consumer choice when it comes to recommendations services in any real way? And if it does, will consumers have to pay more for those services?”

Um… Will advertisers have to pay more to advertise on Google’s webpages than if someone other than Google sold space on Google? (Through an auction mechanism perhaps?)

This is like complaining that the New York Times Company is a monopoly in the New York Times advertising market because advertisers can only advertise in the New York Times by booking ads through the New York Times Company. It’s utterly retarded.

]]> By: Daeng Bo http://gigaom.com/2011/10/05/google-and-the-antitrust-inquiry-fighting-shadows/#comment-662095 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:40:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=415737#comment-662095 I personally don’t think that Google is doing anything wrong that I know of, but I think the questions near the end, “Does it restrict consumer choice when it comes to recommendations services in any real way? And if it does, will consumers have to pay more for those services?” should be limited _only_ to advertising and enterprise, which are the only real customers that Google has.

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