Is Google a monopolist? “I wouldn’t call anyone a monopolist,” replied Mr. Gates, who has frequently been the target of that epithet over the years. He went on to say that historically companies that become “hyper-successful” invite government antitrust scrutiny, and he placed Google in that small, elite group of technology companies: AT&T, I.B.M. and Microsoft. Welcome to the club, Google. “If governments don’t care, that’s a bad sign,” Mr. Gates said.
Microsoft, the champion of the PC era, cemented its dominance because of “network effects” and “positive feedback loops,” economic terms that describe the snowballing benefits to front-runners in some markets.
Mr. Gates used those same terms to describe the challenge of trying to eat into Google’s big lead in Web search. The more people that use Google search, the more data the company has, and that data is the raw material for refining its search results further. And the greater its market share in search, the more advertisers want their ads placed on Google to reach the largest audience.
That, in turn, solidifies Google’s position as the dominant ad market, and strengthens its pricing power. “There are several positive feedback loops in this business, and they are particularly powerful,” Mr. Gates said.
Undaunted, Microsoft is investing heavily in search — “the last big investor” other than Google, Mr. Gates said, after Yahoo agreed last July to let Microsoft handle its search in return for payments. Gaining ground against Google, not catching it, is the current goal.
“We have brilliant people who dream of ways to increase our market share by 1 percentage point,” Mr. Gates said. (Google’s share of the American market was 66 percent in December, according to comScore, compared with under 11 percent for Microsoft.)
Mr. Gates declared himself unimpressed and a bit perplexed by Google’s recent threat to drop its search business in China to protest Chinese censorship of search after attacks apparently intended to spy on Gmail accounts of human-rights activists. “They’ve done nothing and gotten a lot of credit for it,” Mr. Gates said.
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Φυσικά και δεν του αρέσει να αποκαλούν κάποιον μονοπώλιο. Ξέρει ο ίδιος ότι πάνω από δέκα χρόνια τρέχει και δεν φτάνει στα δικαστήρια για το μονοπώλιο της Micro$oft. Ευτυχώς που έχει κλέψει πολύ χρήμα ακόμη και από εμένα και την οικογένειά μου και μπορεί και πληρώνει τα δικαστήρια. Όχι τίποτα άλλο αλλά δεν είναι και καλός στο τρέξιμο.
Κλασσικά με το ένα χέρι χαϊδεύει και με το άλλο σφάζει την Google. Δεν ξέρω. Ίσως και καλά να κάνει. Αλλά μήπως το κάνει αυτό γιατί είναι γερά χωμένη η Micro$oft στην Κινέζικη Κυβέρνηση στα προϊόντα ηλεκτρονικών υπολογιστών και της ασφάλειας αυτών;
Ξέρω. Ξέρω. Ψιλά γράμματα αυτά. Όχι τίποτα άλλο. Μην τα βγάζουμε και παραέξω. Δεν κάνει. Σσσσ.
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