Does the USA hate success? Why punish the Winners? - GoFuckYourself.com

$5 submissions · 03-12-2011, 04:10 PM

Google takes links that alta vista all but ignored and finally delivered on the promise of search engine technology. Google takes GO TO ad technology (and pays for it later

) and builds it into a multibillion business.

Why punish success? Aren't the hundreds of thousands of jobs (both at Google and companies capitalizing on Google's search engine traffic) enough of a societal benefit? Does cornering ANY market necessarily mean unfair practices?

For all of this, it gets poked in the ass by the US Senate. Source:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51079.html

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In recent years, the dominance over Internet search of the world?s largest search engine, Google, has increased and Google has increasingly sought to acquire e-commerce sites in myriad businesses," Kohl said in a news release.

"In this regard, we will closely examine allegations raised by e-commerce websites that compete with Google that they are being treated unfairly in search ranking, and in their ability to purchase search advertising,? Kohl continued. ?We also will continue to closely examine the impact of further acquisitions in this sector."

Is this a case of "Don't hate the player, hate the game?"

brassmonkey · 03-12-2011, 04:23 PM

google = USA? wtf are you talking about?

$5 submissions · 03-12-2011, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by brassmonkey

google = USA? wtf are you talking about?

Reading is Fundamental. USA = US senate = regulatory infrastructure. Success = Google and other dominant market players.

brassmonkey · 03-12-2011, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Reading is Fundamental. USA = US senate = regulatory infrastructure. Success = Google and other dominant market players.

turn your clock back. google is a company. are you huffin paint?

DaddyHalbucks · 03-12-2011, 04:40 PM

Winning is great, but when any company is an uber winner that creates a monopoly, and abuses that monopoly, then there are legal problems.

$5 submissions · 03-12-2011, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by brassmonkey

turn your clock back. google is a company. are you huffin paint?

US Senators too eager to swing on Google's jock. Why? Because they just happen to be a market dominant market? Assuming this was achieved naturally through fair play, why punish success. US Senators supposedly represent the USA. Hence the title.

Mutt · 03-12-2011, 04:56 PM

anti-trust law has been around 100 years, and yes it does punish companies that dominate an industry for the greater good that competition should produce. it's the price of that type of overwhelming success.

Manwin is on its way to the same status in porn - unfortunately they did it by stealing from everybody else.

brassmonkey · 03-12-2011, 04:58 PM

well google is sucking up sales. don't hate the playa hate the game.

$5 submissions · 03-12-2011, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Mutt

anti-trust law has been around 100 years, and yes it does punish companies that dominate an industry for the greater good that competition should produce. it's the price of that type of overwhelming success.

Manwin is on its way to the same status in porn - unfortunately they did it by stealing from everybody else.

Nice contrast of two differing companies. But shouldn't winning in a FAIR WAY be protected? It's not like Google resorted to "bundling" and other "network dominance" shenanigans that Microsoft pulled in order to corner the market.

woj · 03-12-2011, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Nice contrast of two differing companies. But shouldn't winning in a FAIR WAY be protected? It's not like Google resorted to "bundling" and other "network dominance" shenanigans that Microsoft pulled in order to corner the market.

what's considered "fair way" isn't that clear... microsoft bundling a browser with an operating system, isn't really any less fair than google releasing chrome browser for free.... or releasing gmail with 2G limit for free, when everyone else had 10MB limit at the time... etc
those actions by some observers could be very easily considered "unfair competition"...

blackmonsters · 03-12-2011, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by $5 submissions

US Senators too eager to swing on Google's jock. Why? Because they just happen to be a market dominant market? Assuming this was achieved naturally through fair play, why punish success. US Senators supposedly represent the USA. Hence the title.

Acquiring a massive traffic base from a site that built it's traffic through copyright
infringement (youtube) and never facing the punishment of the copyright law
is not exactly fair play in my mind.

I'm damn sure I'd get slammed hard if I tried to do that now.

Rochard · 03-12-2011, 06:29 PM

They aren't punishing Charlie Sheen, and he's still winning.

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