wow
you cant call google a monopoly over a free service
the article says competitors are complaining that the free service's popularity is being used to fund its other projects
[editline]23rd June 2011[/editline]
how is that a fucking problem
[QUOTE=Bletotum;30671889]wow
you cant call google a monopoly over a free service
the article says competitors are complaining that the free service's popularity is being used to fund its other projects
[editline]23rd June 2011[/editline]
how is that a fucking problem[/QUOTE]
it's not talking about funding, it's talking about Google manipulating search results to steer people towards there own products
while i don't personally believe Google is doing that, it is a valid concern
why should anyone care, they get what they were looking for when they search dont they?
Why? It's a free service, that and I don't see it saying that it won't do so. I don't see why this is even being allowed, I'm pretty sure google has every right to provide search results that promote the products that fund their free service.
This is like complaining about and having a anti-trust probe from the US just because they put up ads on their site that help pay for it.
Google's search engine is a free service, and doesn't force you into anything while you use it. It costs them money, and I would actually expect them to try and use it to promote products that get them money, because running the search engine isn't free.
Why is a company promoting products on their own free service to help pay for it a problem?
I've thought about this before. When I want to download "Google Earth" or search for directions using "Google Maps," I always think - hey, I'm on Google already, I'll just type "earth" / "maps". Typing Google would be redundant.
Also, this could very well be the product of Google's search refinement algorithm. Someone thinking like me would search for "instant" and not find Google Instant. Thus, their very next query would be "google instant" and they'd hit the appropriate link. That would affect the listings of the search for "instant."
Interestingly enough, if Google [i]did[/i] remove any hard-coded results, they would likely return to the number 1 position very quickly for this reason; people typing "instant", expecting Google Instant, then immediately searching for "google instant". The same goes for "mail", "maps", "earth", etc.
"fuck off google dont advertise your own products"
[QUOTE=Lazor;30672057]it's not talking about funding, it's talking about Google manipulating search results to steer people towards there own products
while i don't personally believe Google is doing that, it is a valid concern[/QUOTE]
Honestly?
At least google makes good stuff!
Really...
These people should take a gander at, say, Comcast. :colbert:
[QUOTE=soulharvester;30672392]Why? It's a free service, that and I don't see it saying that it won't do so. I don't see why this is even being allowed, I'm pretty sure google has every right to provide search results that promote the products that fund their free service.
This is like complaining about and having a anti-trust probe from the US just because they put up ads on their site that help pay for it.
Google's search engine is a free service, and doesn't force you into anything while you use it. It costs them money, and I would actually expect them to try and use it to promote products that get them money, because running the search engine isn't free.
Why is a company promoting products on their own free service to help pay for it a problem?[/QUOTE]
It doesn't matter if the service costs money or not, if a duplicate of google were to arise it would be impossible for it to become even a hundredth as popular as the actual google. Its so big it does need regulated to some extent as it could have a huge impact on the market, perhaps unjustly so.
Google doesn't directly profit from searches but it could indirectly profit if it favors its own products significantly more than others. It interferes with the fairness of marketing and other stuff.
I don't personally believe google is doing this, but google does like to do shady seemingly harmless things and wait for other companies to tell them to stop before they actually stop. Plus google is slowly taking over the world.
Google often advertises other products, over its own.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrXPcaRlBqo&feature=related[/url] here they demonstrate what a browser is, and in it they choose to open Firefox, and at the end they have links to four different browsers.
I also remember them asking which search engine that you'd like to use when you install Chrome.
Could be, on the web browser video it said that installing a web browser is free.
[url=http://sparkbrowser.com/]I think not[/url]
:downs:
Google's suite of open source software drives my business and thousands of businesses like mine. I love google and how it has a service for everything.
If this is how trusts were back in the day they wouldn't be illegal.
Holy fuck google advertises their own services in their own service? What? This is an OUTRAGE.
I don't see anything wrong with shaping results to include your own services. What's wrong with that?
This is just as bad as all those free games that have advertisement in them!!!
How dare people use free products to promote not-free products to gain an income?!
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