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Google Is Cooperative Despite Concerns Over A Monopoly

Posted by on Jun 10, 2009 | One Comment

There should be an image here!Is Google presenting a problem for competition as we know it? The US Government seems to think so. But despite this, Google is taking a very calm approach on how they are choosing to deal with this situation. As things stand now, it looks like they will likely continue to find common ground with the US Government, being as Google seems to think that they have gone out of their way to be cooperative on all levels.

Speaking as a user of Google’s services, I for one would be more concerned about how Google handles privacy issues than the company potentially becoming something of a monopoly.

Regardless the fact of the matter is that Google remains the king of search, even though there have been some valiant attempts at restarting a sense of competition. And even though I like Google for search, I would have no problem with seeing Bing, Yahoo or Ask dethroning Google if the search results were anywhere near as on target. Thus far, the best hope for that appears to be with Bing and it is still a ways off.

  • http://twitter.com/Abbie2020 Abigail Rumsey

    I agree. I was fine with the simple ways it allows you to add a picture or a weblink and a couple of lines of text then autopost it to the social networks I actually use (Twitter and Facebook). I mostly just use it to post stuff that requires more than 140 characters on Twitter. I won’t be using Posterous to “connect” with my friends because they won’t be migrating there any time soon.