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Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat
CWmike writes "The blogosphere regularly excoriates Microsoft for being a monopoly, but Google may be in the cross-hairs of the nation's next anti-trust chief for monopolistic behavior, writes Preston Gralla. Last June, Christine A. Varney, President Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief, warned that Google already had a monopoly in online advertising. 'For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem,' Varney said at a June 19 panel discussion sponsored by the American Antitrust Institute, according to a Bloomberg report. The US economy will 'continually see a problem — potentially with Google' because it already 'has acquired a monopoly in Internet online advertising.' Varney has yet to be confirmed as antitrust chief, and she said all this before she was nominated. Still, it spells potentially bad news for Google. It may be time for the company to start adding to its legal staff."
Hey, Verne, know what I mean.
/fisheye-lens
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
Democrats just want to destroy companies
No evidence of abuse, eh? I'll bet he did a Google search to look for the evidence...
Get out of my dreams!!!
Property is theft.
A big advert saying that the other advertising company sucks?
Stranger things have happened
I've found their ads to be the least annoying on the internet. The reason I find their ads the least annoying is because 9 times out of 10 they only have text and no irritating graphics or flash crap.
Really? I find them to be incredibly annoying since they're so well tailored to my personal interests that I might actually be inclined to....click on them.
Scary shit indeed.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.