Google is being accused by its competition of not giving them a fair shake in the search business. According to a preliminary report, when a visitor goes to the Google site and searches for something, other search engines do not appear in the search results. Britain's Foundem.com, France's eJustice.com and Microsoft's Ciao.com are all part of the competition's accusatory group. This FTC investigation is like the judiciary committee accusing Toyota of not showing Fords at Toyota dealerships.
I should join the plaintiff's group because I do not show up often enough either. When people search for Tom Hanks, I am nowhere to be found in the search results. I am sure that Google is intentionally burying me somewhere in the 3 million search results for Tom Hanks. I am offended by this deliberate personal sleight by Google.
The only possibility I can conjure up is that when Obama had that dinner in Silicon Valley a few months ago, some one was not invited to the party. Be that as it may, my suggestion is that Eric Schmidt begin his testimony with an explanation of how search engines work for the Senate subcommittee. Then he should offer a sincere series of apologies for being such a successful company that they have earned the wrath of their competitors and the attention of the FTC. The FTC is dedicated to keeping the corporate horse race fair, unless of course you are a home owner or Lehman brothers. But then that is a horse of another color.
IBM appeared before this committee, off an on, for 10 years. Now IBM has more employees outside the USA than inside. Microsoft appeared before this committee many times in the late 90's. Their shareholders might say that Microsoft stock has never recovered. Why should a company be successful in the USA? No reason. Particularly, if they are to have their success painted as deliberate actions to beat the competition. But wait, Mr. Webtalk is not that the American way? As Sara would say, "You betcha."
The FTC should focus on China. That country will not let Google compete on an equal basis. The FTC should be thanking Google, not trying to tank them, because they have created more jobs than the government has created with a trillion dollars in stimulus money. By the way, Google did not use any tax payer money and produced a few millionaire taxpaying American citizens along the way.
Google's success is the American dream. In my opinion, Google should form its own subcommittee to investigate why the FTC is so hell bent on an attempt to ream the dream.
We need to fire Obama for wasting taxpayers money with a search process that will produce no valid search returns.
Join me on my mission to fire Obama.
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