Re:Microsoft files monopoly complaint against Google
by infinite8s on Thursday March 31, 2011 @03:35PM
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No No No. Anti competitive behaviour doesn't arise when consumers all choose to use a particular product because they can't be bothered to try others out. That means the product they chose is likely sufficient for their needs. The dominant use of Google Search doesn't preclude anyone from using Bing if they choose, and for this reason Google's dominance in search isn't anticompetitive. It's only when they use this dominance to enter and dominate another market (or, as in this case, preventing WinMobile's youtube app from accessing the same video metadata available to Android and iOS youtube apps).
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Re:Microsoft files monopoly complaint against Google
by rbarooah on Thursday March 31, 2011 @04:00PM
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The anti-competitive behavior they're accused of is using their dominance in online-video to secure their dominance in search.
Bing can never compete effectively with Google if Google blocks them from properly indexing video.
By your Android analogy, the allegation is that YouTube is preventing you from searching properly using anything but Google Search.
Re:Microsoft files monopoly complaint against Google
by rbanffy on Thursday March 31, 2011 @06:23PM
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Define "search properly".
I am sure the MSDN content on Microsoft's site that's indexed by Google is indexed by crawling the pages. I am sure if Bing folks ask the MSDN folks for access to that data and won't be turned down.
Bing can crawl the entirety of YouTube all they want, grab each and every snippet of information I can see on my screen. Why would they need anything more?