August 11th, 2008
Another Microsoft?
Google may bill itself as an open conduit of information, but media companies have increasingly begun to see it as competition. With Google’s recent launch of Knol, an information source similar to Wikipedia or About.com, some feel the company has moved from simply organizing web content to actively creating it.
Are media companies right to be skeptical of Google’s promise to remain an impartial search engine when it owns sites like YouTube, Blogger, Google Books, and Google News?