Google officially accuses Microsoft of……
Well you can just imagine what Google has to say about Microsoft ‘hostile’ takeover of Yahoo.
This is evidence that such a ‘consolidation’ would rattle Google at its core and create a formidable competitor - ’cause neither Microsoft or Yahoo by itself can do that alone.
I’d argue if the Microsoft offer was a takeover attempt. Microsoft knows they need to have Yahoo’s cooperation and buy-in for the deal to have any merit. If a bunch of folks leave Yahoo or if the old guard is jettisoned, then that’s a good thing anyway.
Google’s argument about a Microsoft-Yahoo merger would
exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?
But you have to remember that much of what is Google today, is made up of ex-Microsofters - who were the ones’ who implemented those monopolistic actions. So which pot is calling the kettle black?
You gotta think that this deal has freaked out Google by posting these sort of statements sure as hell is leaving a paper trail to adhere to - for future Google actions.
Like my friend Steve Gillmor says: “Why should we trust Google, after what they did with Google Reader ‘raiding’ GMail contacts and using those contacts to expose recent feeds being read in Reader?”
I agree with Steve.
We think that Google needs to adhere to a higher ideal - before they can start calling anyone “illegal”.
A lot of what a company is answerable for starts at the top. A lot of the people doing the legwork aren’t asked to think about the ethical/moral/whatever issues that may arise from what they are working on.
Just a small thought, I’m not defending Google in anyway, because clearly they have stepped wrong several times. I just don’t think that having softies is justification for pot-kettle comments.
The higher ideal is hopefully what everyone realises is worth adhering too, in the interests of the consumer at least. I’d hope that joining Dataportability isn’t something MS/Google just did to win popularity, the jury is still out on that one.
A lot of what a company is answerable for starts at the top. A lot of the people doing the legwork aren’t asked to think about the ethical/moral/whatever issues that may arise from what they are working on.
Just a small thought, I’m not defending Google in anyway, because clearly they have stepped wrong several times. I just don’t think that having softies is justification for pot-kettle comments.
The higher ideal is hopefully what everyone realises is worth adhering too, in the interests of the consumer at least. I’d hope that joining Dataportability isn’t something MS/Google just did to win popularity, the jury is still out on that one.
A lot of what a company is answerable for starts at the top. A lot of the people doing the legwork aren’t asked to think about the ethical/moral/whatever issues that may arise from what they are working on.
Just a small thought, I’m not defending Google in anyway, because clearly they have stepped wrong several times. I just don’t think that having softies is justification for pot-kettle comments.
The higher ideal is hopefully what everyone realises is worth adhering too, in the interests of the consumer at least. I’d hope that joining Dataportability isn’t something MS/Google just did to win popularity, the jury is still out on that one.