In the Inquirer een artikel dat niet heel veel nieuws bevat als je mijn blog regelmatig volgt maar wel een interessante vraag hardop stelt, een vraag die ik mij ook wel vaker gesteld heb: hoe komt het dat Google die zulk een monopolistische macht heeft opgebouwd, toch uit handen weet te blijven van de anti-monopolie waakhonden?
"Not content with handling around 90 per cent of UK search requests and about 70 per cent in the US, Google also dominates online advertising with a massive 75-80 per cent market share.
Considering this market share in search and advertising, how and why Google is able to avoid more severe antitrust scrutiny, considering IBM's and Microsoft's run-ins with anti-monopoly commissions around the world, is unknown."
Het artikel zet verder de wezenlijke punten die ons zorgen moeten baren kernachtig op een rijtje.
Nog een citaat:
By delivering open source languages and software, Google is seen to embrace the movement to openness and shared development - the antithesis of Microsoft's closed-source ideology - making it appear more attractive and more open, subsequently attracting developers and development for its key technology stack. However, though it's seen as less evil, it's inherently self-serving.
The search and advertising behemoth is also not satisfied with producing and owning some of the web's best applications, including Google Apps, Google Mail, Google Analytics and Google Maps - it also wants to host everyone else's. (dit is een verwijzing naar http://code.google.com/hosting/ en heet Google App Engine: -Pablo)
Google wants to be at the forefront of Cloud computing and is pioneering its own efforts in the shape of the Google App Engine - Google's application development and hosting platform synonymous with all things Cloud based.
By owning the framework in which future applications are delivered, Google can ultimately ensure its languages, APIs, and services are utilised by the development community, further tying the network to Google's array of products.
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By controlling the complete user experience, development community, and underlying architecture, Google will also control a vast catalogue of personal data on your interests, search history and Internet presence - not to mention your underlying documents, images and other information in its data centres. The amount of personal user and usage information it is and will be able to store will be mind-numbing, and this alone has produced many discussions.
Hier wordt verwezen naar een artikel in de New Statesman Is Google Evil?
Google wants to own everything, and it's on track to doing just that. How that will square with its own corporate mantra (Do no evil _-Pablo) is anyone's guess.
Het hele artikel:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1588520/google-microsoft
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