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>Microsoft-backed lobby group Initiative for a Competitive [Online] Marketplace I hadn't heard of that before. It is… amusing, to say the least.
by KwanEsq 14y ago
>Microsoft-backed lobby group Initiative for a Competitive [Online] Marketplace
I hadn't heard of that before. It is… amusing, to say the least.
- deepblueocean 14y agoNearly all the anti-Google groups that complain to competition authorities in any country are funded (at least in part, generally almost entirely) by Microsoft. The strategy seems to be "if we faced huge costs dealing with regulatory oversight, so should they."
- fakeer 14y agoUsually the case is - if an organization A is opposing or campaigning against an organization B then A is mostly likely to be funded by {C} which is an organization or a group of organizations opposed to A in a financial, philosophical or social way.
- Matt_Cutts 14y agoYou might find this 2009 article from WIRED magazine amusing as well then: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-02/ff_killgoogle?currentPage=all http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-02/ff_killgoogle... That story doesn't discuss ICOMP, but this 2010 Telegraph article does: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8184065/Dark-forces-gunning-for-Google.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8184065/Dark-forces-gu...