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Texas Opens Inquiry Into Google Search Rankings
Hugh Pickens writes "The AP reports that Texas' attorney general, Greg Abbott, has opened an anti-trust investigation against Google spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet's dominant search engine. The review appears to be focused on whether Google is manipulating its search results to stifle competition. European regulators already have been investigating complaints alleging that Google has been favoring its own services in its results instead of rival websites and several lawsuits have also been filed in the US that have alleged Google's search formula is biased. However Google believes Abbott is the first state attorney general to open an antitrust review into the issue."
Yes, let's have a government investigating an on-line search engine, who clearly charges too much for its services, and clearly the market is suffering from such an outrage.
Yes, there is no other competition to Google, no Yahoos, no Microsofts, no Altavistas, no region specific services like Yandex, no Mamma search, etc.
Yes, the barrier to entry into search engine field is stifled by Google clearly, clearly it is impossible to write your own crawler/spider to index the web and then to rank your findings in any way your prefer.
Clearly the government is spending more money to be very productive, obviously, as Krugman said a couple of days ago on a radio program: we need to have the government hiring people to dig ditches and hiring people to fill those ditches as well, that is the engine of economic recovery, the government spending and regulations, and all other ways government battles the private sector and redirects resources from private sector to public by (as an example) artificially setting very low interest rates, so that the banks borrow from the gov't at low rates and then lend back to the gov't by buying t-bills to make the spread.
How about investigating the GOVERNMENT for actually ILLEGALLY DESTROYING COMPETITION BY SETTING INSANELY LOW INTEREST RATES WHEN MARKET CLEARLY WOULD PRICE THEM MUCH MUCH MUCH HIGHER?
Yeah, but that would require actual ability to think and to understand basic economics and to realize that government spending and stimulus and bailouts and printing and borrowing and taxing and regulating and subsidizing while can lead to a short term gain in GDP numbers, actually in reality DESTROYS the market by displacing resources that instead could be used productively by private companies, LIKE GOOGLE to create new ideas, businesses and opportunities that ACTUALLY HELP ECONOMY.
I fucking hate the governments and everything that they stand for because they are the reason economy is failing and everybody's quality of life suffers because of their 'work'.
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If TEXAS does it, it must be E-V-I-L.
But European governments are doing it too?!?!?
But it's oh-so-wonderful Google!!!
OH NOES!!!! SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT TO THINK!!!!
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