[kictanet] Is It Time to Break Up Google?

[Mark Kipyegon]

In defence of Google, the number of services they have developed to support their core business are quite simply top of their class. The likes of Gmail, the Chrome browser, Google Maps and Google search itself have few if any comparable competitors.

Why should innovation be punished?

On 28 Apr 2017, at 11:55, "kictanet-request at lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet-request at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> 
> Listers,
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time-to-break-up-google.html?_r=0
> 
> Here we go, again....
> 
> It seems these *BIG* issues have been and will continue being with us for a
> long while.
> 
> Before @Ali shoots back, this is a different debate from the Risk
> Management one, although they have certain areas where they intersect.
> 
> I quite think the closing words are very appropriate...
> 
> 
> *"...Woodrow Wilson was right when he said in 1913, ?If monopoly persists,
> monopoly will always sit at the helm of the government.? We ignore his
> words at our peril....*