Google Case Analysis

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to organizations across the globe, not to mention an extra $40 million in support for STEM education (science, technology, engineering, math) and fighting human trafficking and modern-day slavery. It is true that Google has contributed immensely to the development of America, but one must not remain sidetracked by the holistic effects, and should instead delve deeper into the true principles of Google in order to realize that the company is, on the contrary, run by “robber barons”. Recently, Google has posted about the principles that guide the company: “do what’s best for the user”, “provide the most relevant answers as quickly as possible”, “label advertisements clearly”, “be transparent”, and “loyalty, not lock-in” (Rosoff). During Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s time at Stanford together, they wrote an essay titled: The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine , in which they “[expected] that advertising funded research engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers” (Brin and Page). This completely contradicts Google’s first and second principles, “do what’s best for the user” and “provide the most relevant answers as quickly as possible”. The truth is, Google makes most of their income on adverstising and has acquired many companies in order to become a titan in that industry, and with Google’s unignorable control in the search market, it is to no surprise that the company has used its influence to be more biased towards things that would increase its wealth. Brin and Page are not the only ones with this mindset; it turns out that VP Marissa Mayer, former executive and key spokesperson for Google, has confessed during a Seattle Conference on Scalability that “... ... middle of paper ... ...e graph to contrast Gmail and Yahoo!’s email user was found to be surprisingly difficult and provided unrelated results: a link to “A List of Mergers and Acquisitions” on Wikipedia popped up as the second choice when typing in the key words “google vs yahoo email graph” into the search bar. When one searches for maps, Google presents Google Maps in 1 in 13 search results, while MapQuest and Yahoo! Maps seem nonexistent. Additionally, Youtube (which was acquired by Google in 2006) and Google Video enjoy higher ranks while Bing Video is 6th in line. Google’s market share over the search industry has increased rapidly over the last decade, but that doesn’t mean the results it provides are reliable. Google therefore is characterized by monopolistic traits because its increasing influence and control allows it to manipulate markets to further promote company popularity.

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