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LIVE BLOG: The Monopoly Question
CONTACT: Jefferson Morley
“What is Google doing wrong?” Virginia-based consultant and blogger Scott Cleland asked the Consumer Watchdog conference today. “They’re a nice company and competition is just one click away.” It is a common enough question which Cleland answered himself with a metaphor that poker players will appreciate. “Google deals itself Aces that are hidden in its […]
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Hard-coding bias in Google “algorithmic” search results
CONTACT: Ben Edelman
18. November 2010
Google tells the public its results have “no manual intervention” and result “solely” from “completely automated” “computer algorithms” that “reflect the popular opinion of the Web” “completely objectively”. It’s a lofty promise, but is it true?
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The monopoly question just won’t go away
CONTACT: Glenn Simpson
27. October 2010
Google’s efforts to expand its search advertising business into the online travel sector now faces the combined opposition of its competitors. The campaign against Google is another reminder that policy decisions in Washington are crucial to the company’s efforts to expand beyond its search advertising business which still provides 97 percent of its revenue.
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Google ‘definitions’ offer interesting insight into Internet giant
CONTACT: John M. Simpson
15. October 2010
Struggling to find the definition for a word? Simply type “define: XXXX”, where XXXX is the word you’re asking about, into Google’s search box. Over at the New Yorker in an article called “Don’t Be Evil,” Simon Rich notes Google’s ability to serve up definitions. Then he has a little fun.
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Our letter to Eric Schmidt: Google shouldn’t care more about its own privacy than ours
CONTACT: Jamie Court
9. September 2010
Google’s mission may be to open the world to information, but it is refusing to let our consumer group buy a search advertisement promoting wildly popular online animation that takes CEO Eric Schmidt to task over his statements about privacy issues. It seems the search giant cares a lot more about its own corporate privacy, than it does about its users’ privacy.
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Google settles ‘Buzz’ suit; Texas opens antitrust probe
CONTACT: John M. Simpson
6. September 2010
There were two major legal developments Friday involving Internet giant Google as the nation focused its attention on the long Labor Day holiday weekend. Both merit recapping, but unfortunately one is less of a victory for consumers than it might first appear. The other development could be a hint of huge problems to come for Google.
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Google faces close DOJ scrutiny on ITA
CONTACT: John M. Simpson
27. August 2010
Despite what the spinmeisters over at Google’s Public Policy Blog would have you believe, the Internet giant is facing tough scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice over its planned acquisition of ITA Software.
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Expedia is worried about Google/ITA deal
CONTACT: Margot Williams
12. July 2010
More fallout from Google’s proposed purchase of Internet advertising powerhouse ITA Software, which was announced earlier this month.
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“Monopole” is French for Google
CONTACT: Margot Williams
9. July 2010
Last week the French Competition Authority officially declared Google a monopoly. Said the NYT: “That conclusion is hardly novel, but the decision appears to go beyond any previous official ruling in the United States or elsewhere.”
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Double Trouble for Google
CONTACT: Margot Williams
9. July 2010
Twice in the past week, Google has come in contact with Europe’s rather different culture of competition and privacy, leaving Mountain View contemplating investigations and negotiations it would have preferred to avoid.
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