

Google is looking for communities to participate in the experiment








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RE: Too much?
By roostitup on 2/11/2010 8:35:19 PM , Rating: 1
Rated down for asking reasonable questions of Google's economic power? Wow...Wake up Google fanboys.

RE: Too much?
By kkwst2 on 2/11/2010 10:26:59 PM , Rating: 4
You were rated down because you make a relatively unreasonable rant. None of the things you list does Google come close to having a monopoly except search and even in search there are reasonable choices in Yahoo and Bing.

Doing a bunch of things pretty well is diversity, not a monopoly. You could argue whether that's a good business strategy, but there is no evidence that Google is about to take over the world. Their revenue, for example, is about a third of Microsoft.

RE: Too much?
By roostitup on 2/19/2010 9:51:42 AM , Rating: 2
I disagree. They do a diversity of things more than just pretty well, they are trying to gain control of multiple markets. There is nothing stopping them from taking over these markets. They come into markets and completely take over the competition, constantly gaining market share. Than when the competing company is down they buy them. Just like any monopoly, they have done this over and over.

Just because you have choices doesn't mean Google doesn't have a monopoly, think about it. Anti-competitive behavior is also monopolistic.

