Friday August 31, 2007

Who's Afraid of Google?

Sure, Google is everyone’s favorite search engine, but not everyone thinks so highly of the search giant.

The list of constituencies that hate or fear Google grows by the week. Television networks, book publishers and newspaper owners feel that Google has grown by using their content without paying for it. Telecoms firms such as America's AT&T and Verizon are miffed that Google prospers, in their eyes, by free-riding on the bandwidth that they provide; and it is about to bid against them in a forthcoming auction for radio spectrum.