Will 2008 Be Google’s End Of Innocence?


	Will 2008 Be Google’s End Of Innocence?

Socratoad

6-16-2008 6:49 PM

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6-17-2008 12:40 AM

mugofcoffee

what a mind blowing headline supported by such a pic?

6-17-2008 1:32 PM

ak_mom75

I hope they leave google alone. I love google and gmail. I think google is the best search engine out there. I love how you can create your own personal search engine for your websites.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4dc9c22a-2b82-4020-8085-7fff9f8c4bc2/B95D94A1-0A27-4696-A3F7-FBCE4EAE17D8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/will-2008-be-googles-end-of-innocence/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/will-2008-be-googles-end-of-innocence/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/will-2008-be-googles-end-of-innocence/"><H1><A title="Permanent Link to Will 2008 Be Google’s End Of Innocence?" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/will-2008-be-googles-end-of-innocence/">Will 2008 Be Google’s End Of Innocence?</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/will-2008-be-googles-end-of-innocence/"><P><IMG alt="" class="snap_nopreview shot" src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/googleinnocence.jpg" />2008 may be the year that Google’s innocence ends, as media and governments start to cast a less forgiving eye at the behavior of the company that <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/25/the-importance-of-a-competitive-search-market/">controls</A> 60% of the search market and perhaps as much as half of all online advertising revenue.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/will-2008-be-googles-end-of-innocence/"><P>In 2007 the Federal Trade Commission <A href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2007-05-29-google-double-click_N.htm">opened<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.34.0.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> an antitrust investigation into Google’s <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/13/google-spends-31-billion-for-doubleclick/">$3.1 billion</A> acquisition of DoubleClick. The deal was eventually approved, although the EU took a <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/11/the-eu-approves-googles-doubleclick-deal/">lot longer</A> to give their stamp of approval (The EU in general <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/15/so-thats-what-the-eu-does-with-all-that-microsoft-money/">isn’t a fan</A> of Google).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/will-2008-be-googles-end-of-innocence/"><P>This year, though, things might not go so well. <A href="http://kohl.senate.gov/~kohl/press/08/06/2008612C35.html">Politicians<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.34.0.1/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> are <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/10/somebody-greased-the-lobbyists-congress-notices-googleyahoo-deal/">lining up</A> to question Google’s recent search marketing deal with Yahoo. The deal was clearly structured to try to <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/14/hey-microsoft-how-bout-we-do-that-first-deal-you-offered/">slide past regulators</A>, but it isn’t clear that this time Google will get a pass.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B95D94A1-0A27-4696-A3F7-FBCE4EAE17D8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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