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Is Google now the enemy? The_Muted_Grimaud Send a noteboard - 16/08/2011 01:58:12 AM
The growth of Google into an everything digital company appears to be driving many competitors into complete revulsion. It has opened fronts against most of the other tech giants, continues to show a neglect for property-rights and copyrights, and has recently been probed (is being probed?) by the FTC for anti-trust problems.

Do you think this is all just sour grapes from companies having their toes stepped on by a giant? Interesting that Android is being sued for its use of Java, this I didn't know. I do know that ASCAP (copyrights association) despises Google, they send me a daily wave of news, at least one article of which is anti-Google. A lot of it is Google's advertising, which ASCAP firmly believes supports a host of infringing sights, and also a belief that Google drives traffic to these infringing sights to support their advertising business.

Anyway, discuss
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Is Google now the enemy? - 16/08/2011 01:58:12 AM 1000 Views
is it just me or are google searches not as good as they ued to be? *NM* - 16/08/2011 02:00:30 AM 419 Views
Could be the filters are narrowing the search results ... - 16/08/2011 02:05:37 AM 581 Views
Re: I'm reading "The Filter Bubble" now. - 16/08/2011 02:13:29 AM 606 Views
Does this make Microsoft a dying manatee? *NM* - 16/08/2011 02:46:32 AM 337 Views
It drives me mental - 16/08/2011 10:21:39 AM 621 Views
Well it was never that good to begin with... *NM* - 17/08/2011 05:32:04 PM 245 Views
I know who do they think they are? Apple? - 16/08/2011 03:05:33 AM 607 Views
what specifically do you not like about google? - 16/08/2011 04:30:16 PM 574 Views
lots of things - 16/08/2011 04:49:03 PM 883 Views
Don't be Evil - 16/08/2011 05:37:20 AM 799 Views
This is very true ... - 17/08/2011 05:47:46 AM 561 Views
google is doing business the old fashioned way, imho - 16/08/2011 04:35:53 PM 562 Views

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