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Ask.com is calling Google an "online information monopoly" in UK
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-04-05 13:54
It seems there is more trouble brewing in the eerily quiet ItsOurNet coalition of online giants who are promoting net neutrality legislation.
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One of ItsOurNets' primary funders, IAC's Ask.com, is calling the lead member, Google, an "online information monopoly" in the UK. Ouch!
Today's WSJ article "Ask.com's Revolt Risks costly clicks" highlights a guerilla ad campaign that Ask.com is running in "London subway cars exhorting commuters to "stop the online information monopoly.""
- The article leads with the fact that Google has 75% share of online searches in the United Kingdom!
- That's even more than the ~50% share Google has in the U.S. that I highlighted last year as key to triggering U.S. antitrust "dominance" scrutiny.
Seems like Google's march towards dominance is happening awfully fast.
Bottom line: Thank you Ask.com for making our point for us -- and then advertising it to the world.
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