There is a lot of talk going on now, about how Google is not only monopolistic but anti-competitive.
Even Google admits that it is “monopolistic” – meaning it dominates the search engine business, big-time. Actually over the last year or two, thanks mainly to a big advertising push by Microsoft, Google’s share has dropped a bit, running right around 65% of US searches currently.
There has also been a big push by Microsoft, other search engines, directories and the like, and various governments, to claim that Google uses their monopoly position to give themselves an advantage with their other products (news, YouTube, etc.).
Bull-pucky.
These competitors formed an organization Fair Search that produced a lengthy white paper. It’s full of misleading, false and distorted information. This article by Danny Sullivan makes it real clear:
Does The FairSearch White Paper On Google Being Anticompetitive Hold Up?.
The Japanese have a saying “Business is War” and Google definitely has its enemies. I don’t blame them for trying.
But It doesn’t make me love or want to use them.
If Microsoft wants to beat out Google, they should get smarter. It worked for Google back when they had 5 staff and were dealing with the likes of Alta Vista and Yahoo and AOL dominating the Internet.
Is Google Anti-Competitive?
