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Blog/The Adventures of CoccobillApr 17
For the people that start fearing about Google, I suggest reading the following article: Google goes click.
Among the others, I liked this quote:
Further proof, if any were needed, that Google
isn’t a technology company that makes money from ads, it’s an
advertising company that uses technology to lure eyeballs
I start to believe that Internet Search is too delicate a feature, is so important that it cannot be left in the hands of a monopoly.
Internet Search should be property of no one or real competition and alternatives should be promoted.
October 16th, 2007 at 15:25
[...] B.G. : Before Google ????Could not believe it!!! There was an era before Google and an era after….It is not that I could not believe it. This is a fact. No one can contradict this evidence. But, once spelled in that way, I think it also becomes relevant the question: “if Internet search is SO important and pervasive, could we really afford to leave it in the hands of a single private monopoly?”. [...]
October 25th, 2007 at 11:31
[...] it is too late. Internet Search is too important to be left in the hands of a private monopoly: Internet Search should be property of no one. The temptation would be too [...]
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:28
[...] more democracy and competition (and, thus innovation!) by forcing a split of Google or by empowering a non-profit organization for managing the “Internet Search” business, the lack of governance of this fundamental aspect of the modern world (the Internet) allowed the [...]
September 27th, 2008 at 23:56
[...] think that promoting a real alternative to Google can only be great for all of us, the users. I would have certainly preferred that an alternative to Google would have been provided by a non-for-profit organization. I want, [...]