The Plot to Kill Google

A friend of mine was kicked off google ads. Now he can't find anyone else to replace them with.

Monopoly.

> Every time a new chunk of radio spectrum becomes available, Google argues it should be opened to the public. Sounds great—except to telcos that have wanted it for themselves and broadcasters that worry new devices will mess with their transmissions.

> Google's insatiable hunger for data scares even some of its allies. Now its business rivals have launched a privacy crusade to drum up fears that Big Brother lives in Mountain View.

Google wants to compete on a landscape that favors innovation but the old guard (which apparently includes wired) is doing everything they can to stop them.

with the economy the way it is, i think a lot of these companies are gonna have to start focusing on their own business models. google is competing very hard both on the marketing and product innovation front and is snatching away market share from the others and will continue to do so because of this. google offers significantly cheaper prices on their products compared to microsoft (the quality of google offerings is up for discussion). they are well positioned to compete with the telcos as well, with products such as grandcentral and android. they are even spurring up competition in the entertainment biz with youtube. yes, it is true that the big companies are not willing to partner with them, but the underdogs are lining up to work with google.

with the moderate size force of lawyers (compared to the competitors) that google has acquired over the years, and the amount of legal information they have learned from all these legal dealings, i have no doubt in my mind that google is fully prepared to take on the big dogs.

keep in mind that google is a very efficient company and has a lot of cash. as many venture capitalists know, cash is very important in making your ideas work.

why can't they just get along? ;) i just want great service and so therefore i want ethical competition. so who am i to side with?: when one of the competitors, by virtue of their own hard efforts or whatever, becomes big enough to gobble up its competitor. hasn't the, now big, competitor earned it? shouldn't it, by the spirit of capitalism, be allowed? we are all scared of this point of competition where it kills itself. why should society have to intervene in such issues? i like a system that takes care of itself.

people are learning how much free rein competition should be given. should we enact laws that ban competitors from gobbling each other? it seems hypocritical.. also proper checks have to be put in so that there will only be ethical competition.

Interesting article; Google comes seemingly out of nowhere takes the web by storm and then pokes around in the usual suspects business.

Yea they are hated but you bet they are not laying off one lawyer.