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You are hereAntitrustOops! Googleopolist's wife talks out of school on pending mergerSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-08-03 17:06The article quoted "Google product manager" Susan Wojcicki, (who also just recently married Google co-founder Sergey Brin), candidly defining the online ad market to reporters.
During a meeting with reporters, IBD quoted Ms. Wojcicki saying: Looks like Canada may review Google-DoubleClick along with FTC and ECSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-08-03 15:48It seems that our friends up North may also be concerned about the anti-competitive impact of the Google-Double-Click merger. CIPPIC, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, is requesting that the Canadian authorities review the Google-Double-Click merger to determine if it is anti-competitive.
I've done a lot of work on the facts surrounding this merger case and am very confident that the more authorities learn about the facts of the case -- the more concerned and troubled they will get about the profound and broad implications this merger portends for the future of the Internet business model for accessing content. Who is America's most notorious scofflaw?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-08-02 18:26The outrage over Google-Youtube's complicity in rampant content theft and piracy continues to spread around the world.
Let's focus on the corporate scofflaw pattern here: American, Japanese, and European content owners accross a wide swath of content industries are all outraged and suing Google for theft. "Google-aganda:" Do as I say not as I do" See great Network World pieceSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-08-02 09:27Johna Till Johnson of Network World, has got Google's number in the article "Net Neutrality? Google, go first!"
Googleopoly -- can you say "predatory cross-subsidization"?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-08-01 19:04For those following the FTC's Google-DoubleClick merger review (and whether my prediction in my Googleopoly.net white paper that the FTC will block this merger is on the mark), this link to an article called "Google's Killer App" is a current and real life case study of how Google anti-competitively forecloses competition in the markets adjacent to them.
This excellent case study article is by Brandt Dainow, a web analytics competitor to Google who has conceded that: "Open Hypocrisy!" eBay-Skype "Blocks" application competitionSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-07-27 10:11It is clear that "open access" is not a true "principle" for eBay-Skype, but a self-serving scheme by eBay to cloak their obvious "private interest" behind the greater "public interest."
Open access to eBay-Skype is a blatant double standard where eBay wants government to regulate their competitors to eBay-Skype's commercial advantage, but do not want the principle applied to eBay-Skype. Must read WSJ Holman Jenkins today... the "Master" of satire!Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-07-25 12:23Great satire is rare.
Please read it and laugh out loud and shout ouch! The pen is surely mightier than the algorithm. What are the specific anti-competitive effects of Google-DoubleClick?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-07-20 12:37The antitrust relevance of yesterday's New York Times reported quote: " ...marketers increasingly want to combine their purchases of search and display advertising." has really quite profound implications for the pending Google-Double-Click deal.
What that quote does is zero in on what really matters to FTC antitrust authorities -- how would the transaction actually change the current competitive dynamic, or more specifically, how would the merger "substantially lessen competition," which is the legal standard for approving/disapproving mergers. Googleopoly evidence growing #1: Yahoo's search/display problemSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-07-18 18:39Google tries to maintain that search and display advertising are separate markets and not direct competitors. It appears Yahoo would beg to differ. Today's New York Times reported:
Great WSJ Editorial on Google: "Sort of Evil" Will consumer groups tune in?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-07-18 12:21Please don't miss Holman Jenkin's great Wall Street Journal editorial on Google: "Sort of Evil." I particularly like his new term for net neutrality/open access regulation: "business model chauvinism." Dead on.
He also points the spotlight on what Google is really doing in organizing groups to view broadband companies as the big public enemy for things they might do in the future, and how that conveniently distracts people from scrutinizing Google's own increasing dominance of online advertising and the business model of the Internet. Pages |