Comments on: The FTC, Google and anti-trust: Some thoughts

By: consumeralertreporter

consumeralertreporter — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:52:45 +0000

Yes, Google is Big Government. Google has excessive market power and regulates the internet to its benefit.
Here are a few ways Google is abusing its position.

1. Search engine manipulation. Watch this video of last year’s hearings. It will amaze you.

2. This one will really surprise you: Data mining and racial profiling
http://marketingland.com/uk-writer-repeats-gmail-racial-profiling-claim-against-google-20468

3. Just plain old bad programming after data mining.
http://mashable.com/2012/01/25/google-cookies

4. Google is the First Company in History to have a Specific “NO Customer Service” policy.

5. I will be filing my complaint to the FTC now.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:34:23 +0000

You live in a very simple world. Look up “anti-trust” and actually read the article you commented on.

By: Buster

Buster — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:41:57 +0000

At least they aren’t bad as the low IQ, over excited, jealous much moron anti-Apple society thats just been waiting for them to fall.

This is the most tiring group on the Internet… go back to your parent’s basement and leave tech talk to the adults.

By: Virtuous

Virtuous — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:19:52 +0000

The FTC should be going after real monopolies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast instead of Google.

By: Anthony Kosner

Anthony Kosner — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:25:18 +0000

Om, I wrote about this today on my blog as well. I concluded by saying that the question for users, and by extension the F.T.C., is at what point Google’s power begins to diminish its utility. Google is a company of engineers, and they are constantly pushing tolerances. Regulation is just another envelope to push against, and it won’t ruin its business if they have to rein things in a little.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/10/13/the-big-fix-1-should-google-get-sued-by-the-f-t-c/

By: Dan G

Dan G — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:21:26 +0000

fall from grace- Apple, the maker of overhyped, overpriced trinkets of choice of the 1%, has been on that list for a long time

By: eric perlberg

eric perlberg — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:23:38 +0000

I don’t think you understand the case the FTC is contemplating. Others will know way more than I but I believe the charge is that Google uses its dominant position in search to put pressure on other companies to make them behave in a way that is not in those companies’ best interests. For example, Google Skyhook v Google.

In the US you are allowed to have a dominant position in a market, say for example, search. Its not that Google is violating a law because its hugely successful. What you can’t do is abuse your dominant position by using it to force others to act outside their own best interests. That is what the FTC is looking into. Some of the comments here show a poor understanding of the law.

By: ronald

ronald — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:22:04 +0000

Zynga investors might have thought Zynga is the Pixar of the Web. But what we have learned by now Pixar has a very thoughtful organization structure down to where you run into each other to foster the creative process. Zynga seems to be more clobbered together.
Which business is FB in ?

How does Apple fit your process? So far it seems they have bypassed it. Which I also think is organizational driven, iPod doesn’t compete internally against iPhone, they work{ed} more as a whole. Which allow{ed} them to be disruptive to their own products. Or the whole is more than the sum of its parts (emergent system behavior).

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:56:30 +0000

“Why shouldn’t Google have the right to crush their competitors.”

Because there’s such a thing as unfair competition. If you and your competitor both own retail stores on the same block, and you sit across the street from your competitor and plink away at his customers with a BB gun as they enter his store, that is unfair competition. Business is not a war zone.

By: WiFi Connections

WiFi Connections — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:33:57 +0000

Dale Buckey ‏@WiFiConnections
Watch my website Google ranking drop after tweeting this article. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/technology/ftc-staff-prepares-antitrust-case-against-google-over-search.html Time to buy more paid ads?