Using your knowledge of Economics, write a paragraph response showing agreement or disagreement with the article's point of view. Be sure to use specific examples from the text as well as corroborating material from your notes or the textbook.
Googles Monopoly
My view on this issue is simple, yes google shouldnt be using this to there advantage, they have a huge comparative advantage because one:everyone uses google and two:there isnt really a site that is just like google that we can use(bing, yahoo,etc.). Even in the article it states this saying"Google has enjoyed this unrivaled position for decades" and "it is the most popular search engine in the world,controlling 82% of the global seach market." so of course they have the ability to do whatever they want with it, but if we have such a huge issue with it make another site like google or find another site like google and use that instead. once google loses people using it then the income they get will go down aswell as the people paying to have there site be first. google wont have an absolute advantage if WE dont let them. even though its wrong for google to do this we arent being charged for it and its OUR choice to use it. Google is just being like any firm and making money just be happy they arent charging us for using it.
1/8/13
I agree that Google does have a monopoly, but it's because they are the best. When I need to search for something I automatically go to Google. It doesn't even occur to me to go to another search engine. The Demand for Google is very high and it is the Consumers Choice. I don't agree with Mr. Katz though on what Google should do. Google provides us with a free service and if they want to endorse people they can. Their Money Supply is from the advertisements. I still get what I need and who cares they put some ad's up while I'm searching. It's a buisness not a charity. If you don't like it go use Bing, Ask, or Yahoo.
Google's Monopoly and Internet Freedom
In this article Jeffery Katz states his feelings on the way the search engine, Google, operates. He also states how he believes how Google has "stacked the deck" to let certain websites appear first when you enter an item into the search bar. I agree with him in every part of this article.
Google has been the most popular search engine for nearly a decade. With Google being the most popular search engine in the world, it controls nearly 82% of the global search market and 98% of the mobile search market. With many competitors for Google, none of them stand up to the popularity of this search engine.
Jeffery Katz states in this article that Google has "stacked the deck". What he means by this is that companies have paid their way to get onto the first page of Google. This search engine has become a "brand killer" with pushing some companies back even to the 4th page of Google because they don’t pay for advertising and let Google advertise on their website.
The search engine that everyone says is the best one out there is not the best. They may give you websites that deal with what you search for but those websites may not be the best ones you want to use. Just because it pops up first does not mean that it is the best. Google is defiantly a monopoly that has controlled people to believe that they are the best. Google is just like a firm that wants people to think that they are the best when they are not. Yes, everyone uses Google, but what is the reality behind Google? Are the controllers and operators of Google just people that want to stay at number one when they just sit there and have people pay them so they are number one? What is the reality behind Google?
I agree that Google has a monopoly, but that's because they have the best search engine. When someone needs to search for anything, they automatically use Google. The demand for Google is high because everyone uses it, which makes it the consumers choice. Google is not doing anything wrong though, they get all their money supply from adverstisments because they provide a good public service. No one cares if they have to see a few advertisments if they find what they're searching for.
Google's Monopoly
I agree with the article because Google has become a major monopoly in the world today and they only do what benefits them the most. Before, Google used to be about advertising what company had the best product where now, given the opportunity, Google will display their own product instead. Though there are several other search engines out there Google is the most demanded and is the Consumers Choice of search on the internet. One part that I don't agree with in this article is how Mr. Katz wants Google to change how they show things. Though Google might present the most paid advertisements they still show what I started looking for and this allows me to make my decisions easier. Google has a lot of control over the world because of all the money they make off of their internet websites and every day they earn money by people wanting to be part of their online empire per say. Google allows people to increase their supply because they broadcast company's throughout the world. I feel as though Google does have more power than it should, but then if you think about it, where would we be if we didn't have Google?
Hannah-Mae Boyd
Google's Monopoly
There is no monopoly with Google! Google is a choice that everyone decided. There are many other search engines you can use instead of Google. No one chooses to use Bing or the Yahoo search engine because Google is better. The article that we read states "When typing in "biking shorts" Google will provide you with a list of most relevant sites. Not true." As a matter of fact this is true. When you type things into google you do get things that are relevant to what you search, you also get ads and such that companies paid to have there. No one is making these companies use google as a place to put ads in. It's their choice! If Bing or Yahoo gave people an incentive to use them, then maybe people would. Google gives people an incentive becausae they are better and faster. Google is 98% of the mobile search market, and 82% of the global search market. That gives a higher demand of ads to be on Google. Companies demand that their ads are on Google because more people see the ads there. Google produces a good supply for ads for companies to use. If google was no longer there all of these companies that rely on the ads they placed on google would no longer have an increase in customer. Google is definitely not a Monopoly, it is a choice people make!
Personally I do not agree with Jeffery Katz opinion on Google. He claims that Google is a monopoly which is true, but there is such thing as consumer choice. A consumer does not have to use Google. People are perfectly capable to use other search engines such as Yahoo or Bing. It’s not Google’s fault that people prefer to use Google over the other search engines. As for people paying for add space, that’s just the efficient way for Google to run their business. That’s how Google makes there profit. Google is a free search engine for the people using it so when people pay for add space it’s just profit for Google. The demand for Google has gone up. If you don’t like Google you are free to use other search engines.
Ashley Mathis
Economics 201
January 8, 2013
Google’s Monopoly and Internet Freedom
I do agree that Google does have a monopoly. Google is used by millions of people every day. By choice millions of people use Google search for help with homework, research papers, ideas, and ect. I believe that it’s the people’s choice on whether people use it or not and there is nothing wrong with that. Google has a high demand and it’s the consumer’s choice. I do not agree with what Mr. Katz wants though. If people want to use Google than let them use it. If you do not like Google than use Bing, Yahoo, Ask, or other online research sites.
Google’s Monopoly
Mr. Jeffery Katz has stated in this article that the popular search engine Google has expanded into a monopoly and is taking advantage or stacking the deck in its favor. I agree that the company has become that of a monopoly and has changed from being an innocent search website and has evolved into an advertisement highway, but the point of a business is to make money. The economy isn’t fair and only the big companies come out on top in this ‘dog eat dog’ market. If the public is unsatisfied with Google then they always have the simple option to switch to another search site like Yahoo or Bing. Websites are very elastic and can be easily switched out for another; it’s all the consumers’ choice. Google wants to make money and will do anything to do it just like any other business.
Article Responce
Google is not a monopoly. Google is just the consumers favorite choice when it comes to choosing a search engine. Comapred to yahoo, bing and ask.com google s business structure is much better. Google siezes at the oppurtunity to maximize profit in many different ways. Google controls 98% of the mobile search market because that is what the people choose not because they are a monopoly. Google has spent years trying to monopolize every avenue through which a company researches things online but they best keep trying.
Google Monopoly Article Response
The writer of this article is convinced that Google’s control of the internet search market is a monopoly. I disagree with this because Google has done nothing illegal to promote its position, and has only provided the best service. Making regulations to control this market (specifically to put Google at a disadvantage) would not really be an effort to make a fair playing field, but more of an opportunity for Google’s competitors to use lawmakers and new unnecessary laws to get ahead. Google has merely considered the demand for this “good,” and produced an efficient and superior supply. A company that protects its interests (such as Google with its algorithms) is not doing anything illegal, and Google just happens to be unusually good at it. Consumers have the choice of web search providers, and consumers choose Google. I believe that the writer of the article is just mad that his internet business isn’t as successful as he wants it to be, and he is blaming it on Google.
Article response
Google is not a monopoly. I believe this because many people prefer google over any other search engine. It is the peoples Choice. Google often seizes the opporitunity in many different situations to maximize profit and all the users of google.They are just trying to tend to all the peoples need and make sure they get what the people want. They also try to make a lot of savings/investments to maximize more profit as well. Goofle is not a monopoly.
Rachelle Reihl
Google's Monopoly
In the article, Jeffrey Katz believes that Google is a monopoly and is controlling which companies, organizations and causes get exposure. There is a demand for Google because thats what everyone is using over other search engines. Which is an example of consumer choice. Google is just like any other business structure and advertises the businesses who pay them to do so, which any other business would do. I do not agree with Jeffrey Katz. I believe Google is doing what any business would do.
Because Google has the best search engine, they have a monopoly. I, myself, and a lot of other individuals rely on Google every single day, for everything. The demand for Google is outrageous; it is the number one search engine for sure when compared to Bing, Ask, and Yahoo. However, I don’t agree with Mr. Katz. He believes Google should change the way that they display things, adding that there are too many paid advertisements. I don’t have a problem with the advertisements, I’m still getting what I need and it is my choice, the Consumer’s Choice, to continue to use the search engine, despite the advertisements that actually pay for Google to run. Google is a wonderful search engine that is free to its consumers, if they can’t deal with the paid adds that profit Google, they are welcome to use another search engine.
There is no way Google has a monopoly. An actual monopoly would mean that consumers have no other choice but to use Google for a specific service/good; this is not the case. Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, as well as a multitude of other possible search engines are available for the consumer’s choice.
Referring to monopolies in the past, most firms would use unfair tactics and/or have unfair advantages against their competitors to gain customers, income, and this would eventually produce a monopoly. Jeffrey Katz, the author of this article, says that “when someone searches for…items, the most prominent results are displayed because companies paid Google for that privilege.” This is true. However, these results that Katz is referring to are literally related advertisements that are listed above the search results; the advertised links are highlighted with a faint yellow background and a visible “Ads by Google” footnote in the bottom right corner of the advertising space. This is Google’s method of increasing their money supply and has nothing to do with altering the altering the search results.
Quite frankly, Google has a great incentive to use Google’s products; their products are superior. If it’s a monopoly to have the greatest demand for your products/services within your specific market, then claiming Apple has a monopoly on portable MP3 players would make sense too.
in my eyes, i think google does not have a monopoly. i mean it is a preferance to a search engine and if people have a habit or routine of using google i just dont think it will change the demand has been up for google, it is the consumers choice and it will do the same unless google does what mr. kats prefered they do and ruin their so called monopoly. then the ball stays rolling because since so many people use google businesses want their advertisments on the website this leads to googles money supply to raise even more.
GOOGLE’S MONOPLY AND INTERNET FREEDOM
Google is the most popular search engine in the world controlling 98% of the mobile search market and 82% of the global search market. With its closest competitor being so far behind in both market share and revenue Google has become a monopoly. The closest competitor being Bing. With Google being as powerful as it is European Union announced the Google must alter their business practices or face charges for violating antitrust law. A comparison shopping site Nextag, regularly analyze the search traffic they get from Google. Their data shows that without a doubt Google has stacked the deck in where people go. Most people think that when they type something into Google that the most relevant sites will pop up. Which is not true. Now a day when someone searches for something the most prominent results are displayed because companies paid Google for them to pop up first instead. As a result Google is now thought of as a brand killer by controlling the companies, organizations and causes that get exposed first. The original mission for Google was to “organize the world’s information” but has recently changes to the “cloak of invisibility” that way the les-flavored brands don’t get seen. Google has highlighted a price-comparison company over their own because their services were better than were. Google should be transparent about how its search engine operates and should provide consumers with access to the unbiased search results were once known as the regardless of which company or organization owns the service.