• Google under an anti-trust investigation.
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[img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/5/24/1369423154429/Google-office-conference-008.jpg[/img] [i]The US trade regulator is understood to be looking at whether DoubleClick is being used to muscle clients into buying adverts on other Google advertising platforms.[/i] [quote]The US federal trade commission is investigating whether Google's DoubleClick advertising subsidiary has illegally pushed customers to buy its other products, the Guardian has established. The regulator is understood to be looking at whether the display advertiser, acquired by Google in 2008 for $3.1bn (£2bn), is being used to muscle clients into buying adverts on other Google advertising properties such as its text-based AdSense. That could constitute "tying", which is illegal under antitrust law. FTC spokesman Peter Kaplan declined to comment. The Guardian has, however, confirmed that the investigation is under way from other sources with knowledge of the FTC's work.[/quote] [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/24/google-ftc-investigation[/url]
Companies use their products to help their products make more money? Who knew.
I have nothing against this, as long as other similarly large companies gets the same treatment.
Step right up ladies and gentlemen, place your bets on how many posts before someone says this law is stupid and infringes on the free market rights of corporations, because the case involves Google
[QUOTE=smurfy;40777537]Step right up ladies and gentlemen, place your bets on how many posts before someone says this law is stupid and infringes on the free market rights of corporations, because the case involves Google[/QUOTE] 6
This law is stupid and infringes on the free market rights of corporations
Honestly, there are other reasons why Google should be investigated, like how they actively block Windows 8 and Windows Phone users out of their services.
Even Google needs the occasional bodycheck to stay in line. Not that I care because my AdSense account got banned after I was so stupid to lend it to a friend for his website.
[QUOTE=barttool;40777581]Honestly, there are other reasons why Google should be investigated, like how they actively block Windows 8 and Windows Phone users out of their services.[/QUOTE] I'm more concerned with how they made it hell for the Opera browser. And it's no secret Google isn't so fond of Microsoft.
Google does some pretty shady shit, and they're only poised to end up with more control over people's daily lives. There is (almost) no direct competitor to google at this point.
[QUOTE=popbob;40777673]Google does some pretty shady shit, and they're only poised to end up with more control over people's daily lives. There is (almost) no direct competitor to google at this point.[/QUOTE] At the same time Google has been playing quite nicely, compared to the power and influence they have. Still good they're kept in check though, we all know how Facebook handles power and influence.
[QUOTE=Van-man;40777632]I'm more concerned with how they made it hell for the Opera browser. And it's no secret Google isn't so fond of Microsoft.[/QUOTE] Larry Page at the end of Google I/O showed this quite well. That said, they don't explicitly block their services on Windows 8 and Windows Phone, they just don't develop native apps, and why should they, there is hardly the market... Especially when they have their own platforms, it's no different to Apple not making iCloud available on Windows 8 and Windows Phone...
Doesn't DoubleClick work using a page's content to provide ads that are at least kinda related?
not my precious google!
[QUOTE=ben1066;40778039]Larry Page at the end of Google I/O showed this quite well. That said, they [B]don't explicitly block their services[/B] on Windows 8 and Windows Phone, they just don't develop native apps, and why should they, there is hardly the market... Especially when they have their own platforms, it's no different to Apple not making iCloud available on Windows 8 and Windows Phone...[/QUOTE] Yeah, just like they blocked Google maps mobile site for WP users for a month even though it worked perfectly fine for IE mobile. Also How they refused to give MS the APIs to make a proper YT app for Windows Phone, but when Microsoft decided to release one regardless they went all up in arms to take down the app claiming they were infringing their use terms by not displaying ads in the app, yet when MS told they'd be right happy to add them they still refused to give them the APIs and instead told them to develop a crappy app with the iframe API thingie they have. [editline]25th May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=ben1066;40778039]Larry Page at the end of Google I/O showed this quite well. That said, they don't explicitly block their services on Windows 8 and Windows Phone, they just don't develop native apps, and why should they, there is hardly the market... Especially when they have their own platforms, it's no different to [B]Apple not making iCloud available[/B] on Windows 8 and Windows Phone...[/QUOTE] Also this is not the same as iCloud is explicitely an apple-exclusive product, Youtube is a website available to all platforms.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;40778064]Doesn't DoubleClick work using a page's content to provide ads that are at least kinda related?[/QUOTE] Partially, they also use cookies though. [QUOTE=barttool;40778208]Yeah, just like they blocked Google maps mobile site for WP users for a month even though it worked perfectly fine for IE mobile. Also How they refused to give MS the APIs to make a proper YT app for Windows Phone, but when Microsoft decided to release one regardless they went all up in arms to take down the app claiming they were infringing their use terms by not displaying ads in the app, yet when MS told they'd be right happy to add them they still refused to give them the APIs and instead told them to develop a crappy app with the iframe API thingie they have. [editline]25th May 2013[/editline] Also this is not the same as iCloud is explicitely an apple-exclusive product, Youtube is a website available to all platforms.[/QUOTE] Microsoft hasn't been nice to Google in the first place, so It's no wonder they duke it out in the grey area. They should both grow up and co-orporate.
[QUOTE=smurfy;40777537]Step right up ladies and gentlemen, place your bets on how many posts before someone says this law is stupid and infringes on the free market rights of corporations, because the case involves Google[/QUOTE] This contest was rigged!
[QUOTE=smurfy;40777537]Step right up ladies and gentlemen, place your bets on how many posts before someone says this law is stupid and infringes on the free market rights of corporations, because the case involves Google[/QUOTE] If anything it is good to see that even Google aren't above the law. Despite their size.
[QUOTE=barttool;40778208]Yeah, just like they blocked Google maps mobile site for WP users for a month even though it worked perfectly fine for IE mobile. Also How they refused to give MS the APIs to make a proper YT app for Windows Phone, but when Microsoft decided to release one regardless they went all up in arms to take down the app claiming they were infringing their use terms by not displaying ads in the app, yet when MS told they'd be right happy to add them they still refused to give them the APIs and instead told them to develop a crappy app with the iframe API thingie they have. [editline]25th May 2013[/editline] Also this is not the same as iCloud is explicitely an apple-exclusive product, Youtube is a website available to all platforms.[/QUOTE] Hm, wasn't aware of the specifics, but wasn't there something when the inverse was true between Hotmail and Gmail, Gmail could share with hotmail but not vice versa or such?
We could all just stop using Google and use Yahoo. That'll piss somebody off.
[QUOTE=Jarate Lover;40778582]We could all just stop using Google and use Yahoo. That'll piss somebody off.[/QUOTE] why would anybody do that i would rather give myself a hot sauce enema than use yahoo search..
[QUOTE=Aspen;40778592]why would anybody do that i would rather give myself a hot sauce enema than use yahoo search..[/QUOTE] There was a day when my ISP blocked google, it was a strange day. I didn't know ask jeeves turned into ask.com.
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