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Ever growing power of Google attracts political concerns and criticism.
The blog post of today is my comment I dropped on TechCrunch
Everyone loves TechCrunch. It is a bit grown to an empire by itself. That’s the way of network dynamics: Hubs emerge and alter the graph like a black hole changes the grid of space and time around. But anyway, TechCrunch is still really one of the top five relevant hubs for discussion and insight concerning serious web issues. One post of today made some wave (see the comment count as an indicator) and I commented on this. Comments are not quite dead (but there is a shrinking trend … Comments Dead, Twitter Holds Smoking Gun).
TC: The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO
Find this interesting article at techcrunch. The headline says it all. Good argumentation. It is really a bit alarming, that the guest author is writing anonymous. For more Google watching just google “googlewatch” 
and find serious places like googlewatch.eweek.com.
Google Watch – Googleopoly – Should Antitrust Laws Be Amended to Consider Google’s Use of Free? http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/googleopoly/should_antitrust_laws_be_amended_to_consider_googles_use_of_free.html
My Comment
(Looking for the source? It is page 2, ca. comment no. 100 techcrunch)
Dear Anonymous,
Google is not as stupid and fierce as the Cosa Nostra, to evidently put harm to people, who say something against them.But I completely understand your fear. It is the part of the problem!
Google has grown to a superpower with perfect dominance not only in the ecommerce field, but
it is one of the most admired and powerful companies in the world concerning INNOVATION power! And with a reason – I do admire Google too in this respect! Their strategy, vision and great R&D.BUT ….
Google is acting like a state, making peace around its borders. So even the admiration can be seen as the part of the strategic game.
(1) We geeks got more free tools that we can eat.
Is Google totalizing the infosphere? Cam head for Google's controversial Street View (googlewatchblog.de)
Michael Arrington’s post made the point: Organize All The World’s Information, Then Put Google Ads On It
My comment there:
Google quietly changed from time to time. The “official mission” of organising the worlds information is no lie, but it is the half truth only, as you point out. Google is an advertising company – THE advertising company of the world.
I count it on my fingers. We will see perfectly contextual mobile advertsing FOR EVERYONE soon, for every local business – easy as an Adwords account – it will be an extension of it.
And there is still the dilemma at the core of the business model of Google: Do not make your search results too good to keep the click-through-rate high because this is just the source of revenue. Null sum dilemma. …
Some more musings about Google’s roadmap
Up to now the business model was primarily about online advertising. But exactly in which sense? The brilliance of the Google business model was to run “micro auctions” in the attention hungry attention economy (i.e. Adwords). Every big and small business searching desperately for the “customer one click away” competing with all the other businesses and products. Read the rest of this entry »
Chrome browser: Next step of Google to rule the web? Picture: blogoscoped.com
SIGNAL: Google has acknowledged the existence of browser “Google Chrome”. It will be released today.
Details e.g. at blogoscoped.com
CONTEXT: Google has grown over the years and became one of the biggest economical power structures worldwide.
It looks as if Google Inc. will go on to shape the world of the beginning 21st century like no other company. Think of market domination in search and online advertising business – at least in most countries. Think of Read the rest of this entry »
