Google On Network Neutrality > Step 3 etc

Step 3 etc

What? Well first of all google isn't in a market that is a duopoly. It doesn't take much to be a search engine in terms of capital investment (being a good search engine is another story). The market isn't a duopoly, there are no serious government barriers, there are no telco lobbying swine to bypass in starting a search engine. The list goes on and on, but your analogy is ridiculous.

But would not a duopoly be the the 2 big dogs in the game? Google and Yahoo own it all now with maybe Msn being a distant 3rd only because of the operating system tie-in. There are tons of small telco/cable companies but they do not have the advertising dollars to be a real player. If you know of true blue search engine (all content connected to internet) let me know.

If someone really wanted to put in the effort and create an awesome search engine it would be labor intensive, but most likely economically feasable. If someone wanted to start a large fiber provider AT&T, Verizon, TWC, or whatever the local connessieur of injustice is, would barrage it with legal obstacles, add to this the fact that it is far more difficult from an economics perspective to attain returns on investment with small investments in starting infastructure and you have yourself a formula for a doomed business. I'm not extensively familiar with how google prioritizes websites in their searches and what not, but to assume that their algorithim is purposely discriminatory is just blowing smoke. It is not about advertising dollars in telco land, it is about who owns the infastructure.

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the difference is nobody forces you to use google or Yahoo, however when it comes to broadband in most areas you have one telco and one cable co and that is your choices.

what i dont get is why does the ISP have to be a portal, id rather they give me faster speeds and much faster upload and just provide email and a dumb but reliable pipe(or tube if you are a Senator).
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Because that would cut into their profits. Honestly the companies that do this should be broken up into the sectors they represent like pipe providers and content providers. I don't see why this can't be done on the grounds of an anti-trust suit. I mean is this any different than MS or the railroad companies of old. (except here it is a very clear division of assets that can be done fairly) Don't give me the usual the government breaks more than it fixes bullshit. I sat on that mantra for a long time, but you gotta realize at some point it isn't a substantive debate unless you are actually giving specific examples of why the government would fail instead of hoping aboard the empirical examples prove it fails bandwagon.