Google Releases A Guide to the Senate Judiciary Hearing

Sep 20, 2011 at 9:46am ET by Barry Schwartz

The questions address Google’s point of view on the various questions or points on hand, they include:

When you hear, “Google is a gateway to the web and controls what people see,” remember…
When you hear, “Google favors its own content,” remember…
When you hear, “Google’s search ranking changes hurt a certain website or caused them to lose traffic,” remember…
When you hear, “Google deters other companies from innovating,” remember…
When you hear, “Google is hurting small businesses,” remember…
When you hear, “Google used third party reviews improperly for its Place Pages,” remember…
When you hear, “Google limits choice in the Android mobile operating system,” remember…

We will have reporters at the event covering it on the ground as it happens.

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http://www.michael-martinez.com/ Michael Martinez

I actually see a huge difference between Google’s results and Bing/Hoo results on their sample queries. I guess they aren’t expecting anyone to actually click on the links?
http://www.michael-martinez.com/ Michael Martinez

Frankly, if I were Google, I’d be a little more concerned about the long list of alleged documented criminal activities in this Forbes article:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcleland/2011/09/19/google-21st-century-robber-baron/