Posts by Durant Imboden

In other words, the South Carolina state government wants to profit from pornography. (They're already taxing cigarettes and booze, so why not porn, too?)

The headline is deceptive. FairSearch (sic) and its ilk aren't "Google Watchers," they're "Google's competitors."

"Transparency" would mean leaving the search results in place instead of hiding them from the public eye.

Has anyone explained to Ms. Vestager that, like their counterparts on other search engines, Google's "comparison shopping service" results aren't organic search results, but ads?

The word "Sponsored" should be a giveaway.

Brasts?

It's worth noting that Microsoft is one of Senator Lee's top campaign contributors. Looks like it's time for Google to ante up.

I've had the slowness and "Not responding" problems with Chrome on my Windows 7.0 laptop for a while now. (No problems with Firefox.)

Smartphone? Feature phone? Unless I'm traveling, a landline works fine for me.

Now, if only they'd plant some foliage around the stadium. (I'm not a fan of the Full Brazilian look.)

Your "straw man" argument

"If all the commercial content producers were to join Murdoch behind a paywall,..."

That's a mighty big "if," for two reasons:

1) In the real world, some content producers would see an opportunity in staying outside the paywall, where they'd have less competition for the larger Web audience after the Murdochs of the world had retreated to their gated community.

2) Your hypothetical scenario smacks of collusion. Would "all the commercial content producers" seek antitrust immunity from the USA, the EU, and other jurisdictions before joining together in a paywall scheme?