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Are you a lawyer? as I understand it a court would have to declare a monopoly and in this case none has. Purely from a commonsense point of view however there
by yanw 15y ago
Are you a lawyer? as I understand it a court would have to declare a monopoly and in this case none has.
Purely from a commonsense point of view however there is no such thing as a monopoly on information retrieval.
- zerostar07 15y agoMe not being a lawyer doesn't make google less suspect for monopolistic practices. The US senate has been investigating it[1] and and new concerns are raised now[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-faces-antitrust-glare-on-capitol-hill/2011/09/20/gIQAFUuKjK_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-faces-... http://betanews.com/2012/01/10/googles-new-personalized-search-raises-antitrust-concerns/ http://betanews.com/2012/01/10/googles-new-personalized-sear... In any case, the one who should be worried is facebook, not twitter. It's also interesting to note how google is going at greater lengths to promote G+ than it did with any of its products before.
- yanw 15y agoThere are always bought politicians parroting some special interest, that doesn't mean that they have a clue: http://searchengineland.com/dear-congress-its-not-ok-not-to-know-how-search-engines-work-either-105265 http://searchengineland.com/dear-congress-its-not-ok-not-to-... And what about innocent until proven guilty?