1. Kapil Sibal wants to completely curb the freedom of communication of internet users in India. According to a post on the blog of NY times, Kapil Sibal - India's telecommunication minister, met the high officials of all the internet majors - Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook to discuss the issue of pre-screening the user content from India before it is published online. The companies seem to be reluctant on this because it would be very difficult to pre-screen every post from India. Google has 100 million users from India and Facebook has 25 Indian million users. The Indian government is planning to set up their own monitoring agency to pre-screen the online material. They are also planning to make policies for screening the content.
This raises many question on freedom of speech and transparency on the world's largest democracy.
2. Google over-protective about its core business - search.
Google is launching its product shipping business. 40% of Google revenue comes from retail stores. Amazon has become a very strong search engine for product search. Users say that they only go to Google for product search if they don't find a particular product on Amazon. Google is strengthening its product search and providing its users shipping in a day or two. It is tying up with third - party retailers (they have contacted Macy's) for products and is planning to create its own shipping.
Google is doing this to prove itself in product search. When YouTube became the ideal for searching videos, Google bought it. Yelp became the search engine for local places, it launched Google Places. The Android phone is majorly invented to cover the mobile search market. This time its going to compete with the biggest online retailer - Amazon.
2. Google over-protective about its core business - search.
Google is launching its product shipping business. 40% of Google revenue comes from retail stores. Amazon has become a very strong search engine for product search. Users say that they only go to Google for product search if they don't find a particular product on Amazon. Google is strengthening its product search and providing its users shipping in a day or two. It is tying up with third - party retailers (they have contacted Macy's) for products and is planning to create its own shipping.
Google is doing this to prove itself in product search. When YouTube became the ideal for searching videos, Google bought it. Yelp became the search engine for local places, it launched Google Places. The Android phone is majorly invented to cover the mobile search market. This time its going to compete with the biggest online retailer - Amazon.
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