{"id":5894,"date":"2008-12-02T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5894"},"modified":"2008-12-07T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T17:46:26","slug":"does-googleopoly-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5894\/does-googleopoly-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Does\u00a0“Googleopoly” = Evil ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a running news search going for anything that has the words “Google” and “Real Estate” in it. More often than not, this search returns cookie cutter press releases designed to reassure agents who plunked down a credit card for a cookie-cutter Web site (“Real Estate Agent Ollie Tabooger Adds Custom IDX Tools to his Web site” — film at 11), but it occasionally yields something interesting. Over the weekend, I got a link to a one-sided attack on Google that was published by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, which offered no forum for a reply, so allow me to retort:<\/p>\n

The piece, called “Googleopoly darkens future of innovation<\/a>” was written by Scot Cleland,\u00a0 a telecom lobbyist that is fighting Net Neutrality<\/a>. The Net Neutrality debate is really complex, so I’ll boil it down to a paragraph:<\/p>\n

As Ted Stevens tells us<\/a>, the Internet is a “series of tubes”. On one side of the debate, you have the Tube Builders (AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, etc.) and on the other, you have the Tube Users (Google, eBay, Apple, etc.). The Tube Builders are also Tube Users and they want to charge other Tube Users based on what they are putting into the tubes and how much of it there is. The Tube Users are afraid (based on past behavior) that the Tube Builders will take unfair advantage of their ownership of the tubes so the Tube Users want the Government to regulate the Tube Builders. The Tube Builders like to point out<\/a> that the Interstate Commerce Commission, which was set up to stop the railroads from doing basically the same thing a hundred years ago,\u00a0 ended up making the problem worse and they say it is best to let the market work things out.<\/p>\n

(Where have I heard that before? In other words, we tax-paying consumers and small business owners will eventually get screwed on this deal no matter who wins.)<\/p>\n

Cleland is behind a group called NetCompetition.org, which is funded by the Tube Builders. His beef with Tube User Google is that it is displaying monopolistic tendencies because the deal they tried to put together with Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a running news search going for anything that has the words “Google” and “Real Estate” in it. More often than not, this search returns cookie cutter press releases designed to reassure agents who plunked down a credit card for a cookie-cutter Web site (“Real Estate Agent Ollie Tabooger Adds Custom IDX Tools to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1119,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1119\/weblogging-as-if-it-really-mattered-how-to-write-with-integrity-and-passion\/","url_meta":{"origin":5894,"position":0},"title":"Weblogging as if it really mattered: How to write with integrity and passion","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you know what stinks? 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