Comments on: Schmidt: It's Google's duty to help fix ad business

Google's CEO says the company has a "moral imperative" to help publishers with high-quality content find an ad-based business that works on the Internet.

[ghostofitpast]

My (indignant) thoughts about this exceed the space for normal comments; so they can be found at:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2008/06/eric-schmidts-moral-imperative.html

[FutureGuy]

"Google talks about monopoly fears", so its afraid of itself, I am too.

[Pania_Beresford]

Lofty ideals.."making the world a better place" is a great goal. More companies should strive in this direction. Good on Google and Eric Schmidt. Congratulations Google.

[benjaminstraight]

Google has become a verb in our modern language....go Scmidt!

[Daniel_Tunkelang]

Google certainly benefits financially from newspapers producing the content that users search for. After all, no content = no ad revenue. However, it's not clear that Google has been a boon to the newspaper industry, even if we ignore the growing pains of transitioning from print media to online publication. Aggregators like Google News are hastening the commodification of news by diminishing readers' loyalty to particular news sources. Perhaps Google can't be blamed for bearing Schumpeter's gale of creative destruction, but they should at least figure out which side they are on.

[chuck_whealton]

I can't believe that google would talk about "morals" or "duty". I don't believe they have any morals whatsoever. Viacom has a legitimate complaint against google for stealing their content. and I hope they don't just "form a partnership" with them. I'm so tired of hearing about google partnerships I could get sick.

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com

[mathcreative]

Well other then google's deal with Viacom. Why do you think google has no morals? I have seen many companies abuse their users much much worse then google. Every other monopoly either tries to force users to use their software either by hardware or software lockin's, or they try to sue their competiion to oblivion, or they fluffy their influence and money to push out their competition, or they figure they could just offer a lousy service because they only thing consumers see in their market, or some monopolies take all these positions. I have not seen google do anything like I described. Sure they may have been bad from time to time, but that's
because the company makes mistakes. Sure one guys website was moved from the top ranks of google and it's effecting his business. But the people that have these kinda of problems are very few, and with a company that runs search through the entire web, I can understand how they can make such mistakes, actually it's more like I can't understand how they cannot. To me google's been looking like a gentle Giant.

[benjaminstraight]

benjamin straight writes: Good article.

[keeef091]

Dr. Eric Schmidt has very many mafia friends, some of whom produce p_rn, even child p_rn from captive women and children, which is how Google got sued for profiteering from deliberatly promoted child p_rnography & why they withheld the identities of child p_rn distributors from police. http://endmafia.com

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