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Google's Continued Growing Pains

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the big-is-apparently-evil dept.

eldavojohn writes "The Mercury News is reporting that Google's 500 percent growth since its IPO hasn't come without a cost. With the purchase of DoubleClick, Google is facing antitrust charges in both the United States and the European Union. And with their rising success, there are open source alternatives springing up."

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  1. Unregulated capitalism == evil by iamacat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Google is a decent company, but they do evil simply by virtue of dominating the market and being impossible for a newcomer to compete with. To fulfill their corporate slogan they should agree to self-imposed restrictions against things like the Doubleclick deal.