90 Million Users?
Certainly 90 Million accounts, but Google hasn't revealed how many are active.
A gang of engineers from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter has released a new bookmarklet designed to expose how Google’s People & Pages service favours the ad giant’s own Google+ results at the expense of the rest of the web. The Focus On the User group posted a video explaining how the Don’t Be Evil tool works - a reference to …
"Best search engine" - According to bing it's http://www.dogpile.com/, Google gives a comparison page which rates ask.com first.
"Best Operating system" - bing gives a comparison page, starting with windows, google gives a "10 best alternative operating systems"
"Bill Gates" - Bing (After the wikipedia result) gives the Bill Gates foundation, google, (After wiki) gives microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/
My conclusion: They are both evil!
Other networks are blaming Google for launching a service that lets people search Google+? If this new search included Twitter and Facebook and pushed them down in favour of G+ then sure, but from what I understand, this is a service for just Google+ users. People do like to jump on Google for breaking their motto for the silliest of reasons...
When I do internet searches, I am not looking for twits, facebook or myspace trash. I am looking for information. I don't care to hear about some crazy persons opinions, if I did, I could log into myspace or facebook (I refuse to join twitter, I don't see any use for it) and read hours worth of gibberish from people I barely know.
I actually would enjoy never seeing any search result from those three social networking sites ever again, they have no real information.
it is not a monopoly, there are other search engines you can use (although they are pretty crappy).
You're confusing the premise.
* Google pays browser and phone vendors to use Google as the default search engine.
* Google does not pay browser and phone vendors NOT to use other search engines.
Therefore you get Google by default, but you are still given the option to choose a different SE for default instead.
Similar for social networks. Google releases spiders that index any content you throw at it (or that others link to). Farcebook and Twatter are free to open the gates to their gardens and allow the spiders in - and would probably get higher rankings than G+.
However, they don't want to let the spiders into their walled gardens (instead they want the spiders to pay a fee at the gate), therefore Google doesn't index them - at their request. Simples.
There may be a narrow anti-trust case for Google preventing vendors from choosing alternate pre-loaded crap (such as Skyhook - if this accusation is true). However as a consumer, I'm glad they do that; if I want a specific app I'll get it myself from the market thank-you very much.
In any case, it's only the Android name they control, if someone wants to take Android OS and bundle a bunch of crap with it for their devices they are welcome - just don't call it Android - I think that's fair and helps the consumer as much as anything to know just what they are buying.
Twitter used to provide a tweet feed to Google who were happy to search the results.
Now they don't provide the data, and add noFollow links - which Google honours.
I imagine they'd be screaming a lot louder if Google was 'illegally scraping their site despite their explicit instructions'.
Google is a walled garden - has been for some time. The search is no longer neutral, and has not been so for some time. They are just becoming indifferent to hiding the bigger game plan. Google is not the neutral search provider people still think it is.
so many stupid so much advertising opportunities.
(I don't believe I'm about to say this, but) Eric Schmidt is right about one thing.
If I deliberately block Google from spidering my website, I have no grounds for complaint when my site doesn't show up in Google's search results. This is self-evident; if I want my site to appear on Google, I have to let the Googlebot spider my site.
Facebook and Twitter both actively prevent Google from spidering their pages. So they have no grounds to complain when Google's search results don't display them. They have only themselves to blame if their sites aren't showing up.
Who cares ?
No, frankly, is there any reason at all to pay attention to what Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have to say about anything ? One is a company creating ADD patients, the second is well on its way to irrelevance and the third has the brainpower of a canary.
Now I agree that Google has become the Microsoft of the Internet, but frankly the Three Stooges are the last people I would go to for a discussion on anything.