[governance] Google power

[Ian Peter]

The issue of course is not with the technical capabilities to merge
databases but with the potential power possessed by Google, with the unique
database content it holds, to create monopolies in certain market sectors
that others will not be able to compete with.


On 30/10/09 9:08 AM, "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Ian and all,
> 
>  
> 
>   This really nothing new at all other than the means by which the Database
> application is being
> 
> executed.  This technique has been around for two decades at least.  Secondly
> Google doesn't
> 
> have any such thing as a predominant position on this form of network data
> base processing.
> 
> This whole article is more hype than substance.
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ian Peter 
>> Sent: Oct 29, 2009 4:57 PM
>> To: "'governance at lists.cpsr.org'"
>> Subject: [governance] Google power
>> 
>> The following item and exchange show some amazing new possibilities for
>> navigation by matching the capabilities of various databases owned by Google
>> to satellite navigation capabilities.
>> 
>> 
>> http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/navigating-the-future-take-me.html#comments
>> 
>> 
>> Pretty cool features, but the danger here is the market power of Google. No
>> one else will be able to match the capabilities or provide the data for these
>> features. See the comments made by Tim O¹Reilly.
>> 
>> As Tim points out, what we are looking at here is the development of
>> applications that depend on coordinated data from multiple databases. This
>> will allow some quite amazing new features that no other player will be able
>> to match.
>> 
>> Apart from this ­ data matching raises various privacy issues. Many countries
>> have data matching restrictions embedded in prvacy legislation. I¹m
>> interested to know what people think about this and what social policy
>> implications might exist.
>> 
>> Ian Peter
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
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