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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Would we want Google to be neutral?

A very interesting point about net neutrality:

Google prioritizes search results, based on a secret and tricky technique that only Russian mathematicians can understand. This technique creates an unequal playing field. If ISPs should be requiredy by law to randomly forward packets without any inspection, shouldn't Google also be required to randomly order search results so as not to favor the big sites? It would seem so, so I have to ask: if not, why not?

It also prompts the question:
Is Google's support of net neutrality a way of, in effect, neutralizing other organizations that might cut into Google's strengths?

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Is Craig Newmark a big fat lying liar?


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