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By: messels

messels — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:29:43 +0000

exactly. and a government enforced redirect would come across as comand-economy, so i see little chance of that happening. i'm just not sure current anti-trust laws can even address an internet based monopoly. the internet is the antithesis of the physcial restrictions defining our current paradigm of a monopoly. there's simple an indeterminate number of competitors but it's irrelavent if people simply choose to "not go there". bookmarks, rss-feeds, etc all create a volition of content avoidance rather than an inablity to access content. worst case senario is the government forces google to break up the different opperating units...honestly, i think that would end up benefiting google anyway. (smaller is better when it comes to the internet...also a paradigm shift from "industrial" markets). messels's last blog post..My Business Model for Investing: Covered Calls or ?always profitable? (at least imho)

By: Jayson

Jayson — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:24:53 +0000

I wonder how the government would break the Googler up – doesn’t seem like they could do much. Maybe they’d make Google pay for anti-Google advertisements or redirect 25% of their traffic?

By: PS3

PS3 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:19:18 +0000

What exactly is Google “street view” – I tried to find out using the link but all I got was “loading map”?

By: messels

messels — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:46:21 +0000

the google question is one i’ve been wondering about for a while.
how would we define a monopoly on the internet? it’s not the same kind of monopoly that forced the break up of AT&T, for example. in that situation, the consumer had no choice. in the case of google, anyone can at any time surf on over to a different search engine. and there will be a need for other search engines. i mean, just the other day i was finding CRAP on google and then went to yahoo, msn, and ask. (i got CRAP from all of them. lol). i’m not sure a website can be broken up. it wouldn’t even make sense. how do you break a search box up? search could be separated from the other operating units but that’s just a “show”; there’s no real impact. i’m pretty sure our antitrust laws can’t even address the internet. very much a square and round hole situation…
or??

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By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:32:23 +0000

It’s possible that Google could become a monopoly by itself—and if there’s any evidence that they’ve used unfair practices to get there, or if they ever make a wrong move after they’ve gotten there, the government can break them up, just like Microsoft was.

As you can see, it’s an extremely effective method of dealing with that market weakness…

By: Timberland

Timberland — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:31:54 +0000

“Yes, two losers joining hands together can indeed take on other losers!”

+100 Agree to all!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:28:27 +0000

Why two different takes on the same data. There are many other interpretations as well, and spin doctors as well as fanatic anti and for bloggers all throwing their hats into the ring. When you are as big as MS and Yahoo, you are bound to get such coverage. Yes, two losers joining hands together can indeed take on other losers! Nicole's last blog post..Wanna Buy Computer Accessories and Peripherals