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Why is it bad? it's definitely bad for Google but for french citizens I can't see how fomenting diversity in a market hurts.

aikah 12y ago
> Why is it bad? it's definitely bad for Google but for french citizens I can't see how fomenting diversity in a market hurts. How is it going to "foment diversity" ? it's not. You want to "foment diversity" ? Remove some of these stupid regulations and make France more business friendly. Forcing google to display 3 of its competitors on its search engine page isn't going to create jobs or new startups in France. Google is the least of France's problems. Its politicans on the other hand.
adventured 12y ago
It's bad because they were unable to compete in an open market and must turn to the government to handicap Google. There's nothing preventing a French company from producing their own equal or superior search engine - other than competence or will.
- scrollaway 12y ago
  "Producing an equal or superior product" does not necessarily give the ability to "compete in an open market". That's an idealistic view of capitalism which simply doesn't work. It's merely a factor, and a fairly small one at that. For all you know, there's plenty of "equal or superior products" to [anything] out there. You've just never heard of them for reasons that have nothing to do with their quality.
- ericd 12y ago
  There's a very high minimum technical bar for successfully competing with Google in search, and then a mountain of brand awareness and user inertia on top of that.
erazor42 12y ago
Do you think forcing google to display a competitor on their homepage will change google monopoly? I agree that diversity is a good point but that way is just a joke. The day google will have competitor on search engine people won't need a stupid law like this to switch. (imho)

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Why is it bad? it's definitely bad for Google but for french citizens I can't see how fomenting diversity in a market hurts.

by erik14th 12y ago

aikah 12y ago
> Why is it bad? it's definitely bad for Google but for french citizens I can't see how fomenting diversity in a market hurts. How is it going to "foment diversity" ? it's not. You want to "foment diversity" ? Remove some of these stupid regulations and make France more business friendly. Forcing google to display 3 of its competitors on its search engine page isn't going to create jobs or new startups in France. Google is the least of France's problems. Its politicans on the other hand.
adventured 12y ago
It's bad because they were unable to compete in an open market and must turn to the government to handicap Google. There's nothing preventing a French company from producing their own equal or superior search engine - other than competence or will.
- scrollaway 12y ago
  "Producing an equal or superior product" does not necessarily give the ability to "compete in an open market". That's an idealistic view of capitalism which simply doesn't work. It's merely a factor, and a fairly small one at that. For all you know, there's plenty of "equal or superior products" to [anything] out there. You've just never heard of them for reasons that have nothing to do with their quality.
- ericd 12y ago
  There's a very high minimum technical bar for successfully competing with Google in search, and then a mountain of brand awareness and user inertia on top of that.
erazor42 12y ago
Do you think forcing google to display a competitor on their homepage will change google monopoly? I agree that diversity is a good point but that way is just a joke. The day google will have competitor on search engine people won't need a stupid law like this to switch. (imho)