[IP] more on Google and 'neutrality' hypocrisy
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From: Gerry Faulhaber <gerry-faulhaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 22, 2006 10:58:42 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Google and 'neutrality' hypocrisy
It's worse. Google pays Mozilla a fairly large hunk of change to be
Firefox's default search engine. There are, of course, other choices
on Firefox, but Google's the default. Remind you of the Netscape/IE
wars?
Here's the link: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/
3590756
Professor Gerald R. Faulhaber
Business and Public Policy Dept.
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Farber" <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [IP] Google and 'neutrality' hypocrisy
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From: Andy Smith <asmith@xxxxxxx>
Date: June 22, 2006 9:59:31 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Google and 'neutrality' hypocrisy
Dave,
Here's a fascinating proposal from Congress on "discriminatory"
behavior at Google. The proposal states that search engines can
not provide preferential treatment (higher listing locations) for
companies that pay them ad fees. Does this sound like any other
proposed business models or regulatory battles we know about? Net
neutrality ring a bell?
Basically, the proposal, intentionally I believe, draws an analogy
between the business models of Google and Yahoo! with the proposed
models from the service providers which would like to charge for
premium treatment (access, ranking in search, etc.). What's
particularly amusing about this is Google is now in a rather
awkward position... Arguing that service providers can not provide
preferred treatment while Google can. Very creative, and I would
guess that the idea was planted by a telco lobbyist.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6346096.html
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