Re:Google works with hotels to hurt travel competition
by dmode on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:48AM
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Can you elaborate on the WSJ's agenda against Google ?
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Re:Google works with hotels to hurt travel competition
by denzil_correa on Thursday December 28, 2017 @04:45AM
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The owner of WSJ is News Corp whose executive co-chairman is Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch's views about Google are well known, Example : https://www.forbes.com/2009/04/03/rupert-murdoch-google-busi...
Re:Google works with hotels to hurt travel competition
by puzzle on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:26AM
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Yeah, it's not a new spat and definitely not limited to just the WSJ. See also this, starting from the title and finishing with the zinger at the end: https://europe.googleblog.com/2014/09/dear-rupert_25.html
Re:Google works with hotels to hurt travel competition
by jakecopp on Thursday December 28, 2017 @04:43AM
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News Corp owns WSJ, and a lot of other newspapers and media brands. News Corp's competition is not other publishers, it is Facebook and Google.
Re:Google works with hotels to hurt travel competition
by dragonwriter on Thursday December 28, 2017 @12:23PM
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There's two parts two News Corp’s war on Google, the narrow business part concerns Google being key to reach but squeezing out profits of online publishers (especially in the news arena) exactly the way this article complains it does to travel agencies, the broader political part has to do with Google's perceived alignment with the Democratic Party and how that conflicts with News Corp’s broader partisan political agenda.