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Group Calls For Google Antitrust Probe
CWmike writes "Advocacy group Consumer Watchdog called on the DOJ to launch a broad antitrust investigation into Google's search and advertising practices and consider a wide array of penalties, including possibly breaking the company up (PDF). The watchdog, along with a mobile entrepreneur and two lawyers representing Google rivals, called for an investigation focusing on a number of issues, including Google's marriage of search results to advertising and its book search service. '...We think all remedies should be on the table, including, we think, the possible breakup of the Internet giant,' said John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog. Adam Kovacevich, senior manager for global communications and public affairs at Google, discounted the criticisms, saying Consumer Watchdog has been 'relentlessly negative' about Google. The group recently questioned the reasons why Google stopped censoring search results in China, and criticized Google's privacy Dashboard as inadequate, Kovacevich said."
Reality check: You don’t “know” anything about that at all. You know that when you click on there, you see something trough your eyes, that looks exactly like a display with a text in the look of a website, that states (without big logical quality) that the answer is yes. That’s about it.
Same thing for the Slashdot summary, my comment, or in fact anything outside of your mind.
It’s all just a mental model held up by trust and consistency.
And since trust is relative, and consistency is dependent on the already established mental model, that does not mean much for anyone else. But does it matter? Since anyone else could just as much be a product of your imagination anyway.
But... *head explodes*
*black hole in place of head sucks in earth*
*black hole with earth in it explodes and wipes out the entire universe*
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Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
I've deleted my google buzz account like 15 times now and I still have followers. How is that possible?
Yes, google fan boi'z, I went and did all the steps it took to delete it. It's still there. When I click on people's profiles, they still list me as being followed.
Google fan boi'z apologies and excuses in 5...4....3.....2.....1....
The complain is that google uses profits from a dominant product to fund free products, which in turn improve its position in search. If you are a small fish and gives away stuff nobody cares.
LOL. Hey moderators! Did I blow your mind? Or did you not get it? ^^
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.