1.Google creates monopoly by offering superior web(!) products for free
2. Facebook is at disadvantage because it does not allow Google to crawl its pages and this is Google's(!) fault.
How come such absurd article is third item on HN? (edit: grammar)
It is becoming increasingly clear that Google+ is ushering something fundamentally different. Lot of people, hackers especially are very keen on understanding the implications and predicting where Google+ will go from here. And it is human nature to try and relate new things with analogies to stuff we have understood and internalized well. Hence the slew of articles comparing it to Facebook, Twitter, now IE and god knows what else. People here, my guess is, would be interested in anything that articulates a new perspective on Google+.