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The complaint is that Google has a conflict of interest as it becomes a content provider as well as a search engine, and that it is exploiting this. For other
by rbarooah 16y ago
The complaint is that Google has a conflict of interest as it becomes a content provider as well as a search engine, and that it is exploiting this.
For other content providers, more search engines indexing their stuff, means more traffic. There is only upside to letting more search engines in.
For Google, hobbling other search engines indexing their content is a great way to keep their search engine on top. It's a virtuous circle for them.
In a way it's hard to see how they aren't privileging Google search in some way. Does Google Search use a public API to scrape YouTube, or is there some backend integration? If there's integration, doesn't that support Microsoft's claim?