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With  giant online advertising company Google firmly entrenched in the Whitehouse, Christine Varney, Barack Obama’s “top antitrust official,” says the technology industry is, “coming under the sway of a dominant behemoth, one that had the potential to stifle innovation and squash its competitors”.

So says Wired, going on to quote her as stating »»»

For me, Microsoft is so last century.

They are not the problem.

I think we are going to continually see a problem, potentially, with Google.

Wash your mouth out Christine! Don’t you know Google loves Obama, and vice versa?

The story goes on »»»

Instead of dominating the desktop, Varney said, Google was starting to colonize the emerging cloud-computing industry, amassing “enormous market power” and potentially creating an ecosystem that customers would be powerless to escape.

“For much of its history, Google has responded to most criticism with two words: Trust us,” says Wired, adding:

“The company has repeatedly persuaded skeptics that its immensity is a mere byproduct of its altruistic mission and that the algorithms it uses to organize the Internet, while proprietary, are objective and benevolent. But in an economy destroyed by bad faith, secretive formulas, and complicated mathematics, trust is in short supply, and Google’s assurances are losing their persuasive power.

“More than 15 years ago, federal regulators began making Microsoft the symbol of anticompetitive behavior in the tech industry.

“Now, a newly activist DOJ may try to do the same thing to Google.”

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firmly entrenched – Barack Obama in a `Googley way`, January 24, 2009
Wired – Why Is Obama’s Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google?, July 20, 2009

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