I read a friend’s twitter post a few minutes ago about Google deleting North Corea from Google Maps and it got me wondering: Does Google have too much power?
Deleting the country’s cartographic data from Google Maps might be annoying but I don’t suppose it does much harm. On the other hand, what if Google decides not to display search results that relate to a certain country, territory, etc.? Then it gets messy. Think of the economic impact of such a measure, and if it’s done carefully people might not even notice there’s a problem.
One might say: let’s make a law for that. Nope don’t think so, that usually ends up badly. The big problem is why isn’t there anybody to rival Google(for real) and balance the market. Yahoo is far behind in popularity, bing (from my experience with it) produces the same lousy results that MSN search did and there are no other serious search engines that I know of.
In conclusion: we better pray Google likes us.
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