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How free is free? Speech vs. beer at the Googleplex
David Heath
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 09:14
"More specifically, Google is expending surplus market power to create an adjacent 360° noprofit zone around Google by predatory free pricing and cross-subsidization of search complement products/services like: Checkout, Google Health, Android, YouTube, Blogger, Reader, News, Earth, Desktop, Calendar, Docs, Gmail, Social networking, photos, Translate, GOOG-411 etc."
The final comment rests with Bottin Cartographes' lawyer, Jean-David Scemama; "Google is ruining the market, their strategy is to capture the market and squeeze out the competition by creating a monopoly for itself."
I guess that would make sense if they could find a way to extract copious amounts of revenue from the products once the competitors were gone, but as Dana Wagner noted earlier, that's going to be neither easy or likely.
Google Australia declined iTWire's request to comment on this story.
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