Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Go ogle

Does Google have too much power? Is it a monopoly that should be broken up? Scott Ott (Scrappleface) has a helpful suggestion that might make the folks at the E.U. happy:
Increasing worries about anti-competitive American dominance of the internet have driven the European Union (EU) to vote on a motion to break up Google. The symbolic, but morally significant, vote could come as early as Thursday.

If the vote succeeds, Google says it will comply “to maintain European goodwill and to avoid being evil,” by splitting into publicly-traded entities named ‘Go’ and ‘ogle.’

‘Go’ will be the “action service,” aimed at those who use the internet to run a business, or to conduct academic research. ‘ogle’ will handle the other 99 percent of Internet traffic, largely pornography.
Read more here.

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