Why Is The NY Times Running A Ridiculous, Conflicted Op-Ed Against Google?
Paul Kedrosky points us to an absolutely ridiculous op-ed in the NY Times from a guy who runs a price comparison search engine that offered little of value and reasonably was punished by Google for it. But the guy tries to make a federal case out of his own poor ranking, suggesting that the government needs to regulate Google because the company was so bold as to recognize that people weren’t searching for his lame price-comparison site and probably would find others more appropriate. Kedrosky picks apart the piece brilliantly: Gosh, what a shocker. Someone in search with no web traffic…. wants someone in search with a lot of web traffic, Google, to send his company buckets of visitors. Amazing. The OpEd goes downhill from there.
Paul Kedrosky points us to an absolutely ridiculous op-ed in the NY Times from a guy who runs a price comparison search engine that offered little of value and reasonably was punished by Google for it. But the guy tries to make a federal case out of his own poor ranking, suggesting that the government needs to regulate Google because the company was so bold as to recognize that people weren’t searching for his lame price-comparison site and probably would find others more appropriate. Kedrosky picks apart the piece brilliantly: Gosh, what a shocker. Someone in search with no web traffic…. wants someone in search with a lot of web traffic, Google, to send his company buckets of visitors. Amazing. The OpEd goes downhill from there. We get a litany of silly complaints, like the idea that Google doesn’t innovate, that it just buys stuff from others, and that Google’s Maps and other products have hurt other companies. Yeesh. I’ll say this really slowly: Consumers want products that work t
