Comments on: Siva’s New Blog/Book: The Googlization of Everything http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/10/sivas_new_blogb.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:19:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Seth Finkelstein http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/10/sivas_new_blogb.html/comment-page-1#comment-52170 Seth Finkelstein Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:08:41 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/10/sivas-new-blogbook-the-googlization-of-everything.html#comment-52170 "Websites "push back" against Google at their peril--anger it too much, and you may just get de-indexed or buried in the last pages of search results." Well, the thought that they <em>could</em> do this is scary - but note they don't do it in reality. You don't matter that much :-). "And just as I've worried that the carriers could strangle Google, it's easy to imagine the tables turned: Google going proprietary and deciding not to allow its site to be carried on the carriers that fail to pay for it." Won't happen. Nobody has an incentive to do that. "It's time for Google's critics to take advantage of the same "superhub" strategy by aggregating around some central site of inquiry and accountability" Where's the money? :-) “Websites “push back” against Google at their peril–anger it too much, and you may just get de-indexed or buried in the last pages of search results.”

Well, the thought that they could do this is scary – but note they don’t do it in reality. You don’t matter that much :-) .

“And just as I’ve worried that the carriers could strangle Google, it’s easy to imagine the tables turned: Google going proprietary and deciding not to allow its site to be carried on the carriers that fail to pay for it.”

Won’t happen. Nobody has an incentive to do that.

“It’s time for Google’s critics to take advantage of the same “superhub” strategy by aggregating around some central site of inquiry and accountability”

Where’s the money? :-)

]]>