The [FTC's] inquiry…will examine fundamental issues relating to Google’s core search-advertising business, said people familiar with the matter. The business is the source of most of Google’s revenue. The issues include whether Google—which accounts for around two-thirds of Internet searches in the U.S. and more abroad—unfairly channels users to its own growing network of services at the expense of rival providers.
Kad sam ovo pročitao, odmah mi je zazvučalo nekako poznato - to komično obrazloženje da je firma monopolista jer neće da pomaže konkurencijji nego joj odmaže uvaljujući potrošaču svoje proizvode i usluge. A onda sam se setio - slučaj Alcoa iz 1946 gde je legendarni sudija Lernd Hand osudio ovu firmu zbog monopolističkog ponašanja sa sledećim obrazloženjem:
It was not inevitable that it should always anticipate increases in the demand for ingot and be prepared to supply them. Nothing compelled it to keep doubling and redoubling its capacity before others entered the field. It insists that it never excluded competitors; but we can think of no more effective exclusion than progressively to embrace each new opportunity as it opened, and to face every new- comer with new capacity already geared into a great organization, having the advantage of experience, trade connections and the elite of personnel.
Mislim da je jedina razlika u tome što sudovi, barem u Americi, danas verovanto neće pasti na ovakve idiotizme. Ali, svejedno, proces može potrajati dovoljno dugo da finansijski osakati Google. U ime potrošača, naravno.
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