Google Shutting Out Rivals, Claims Russian Search Engine Yandex 170
suraj.sun writes "Ilya Segalovich, co-founder of Russia's leading search engine, Yandex, has accused Google of abusing its dominance to shut out competitors in cyberspace. Responding to comments made to the Guardian by Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder, about threats to the open internet, Ilya Segalovich described the U.S. search giant's popular smartphone platform, Android, as a 'strange combination of openness and not openness,' and its Chrome web browser as anti-competitive. Segalovich said that Brin should explain Google's 'semi-open' approach to search competitors before accusing others of endangering the unfettered internet, and suggested Google was guilty of foul play with its Chrome browser, which picks the company's own search engine as default for users, rather than offering a choice between rivals including Yahoo, Bing and Yandex."
This man *is* a loser, period. (Score:4, Insightful)
The gentleman Ilya Segalovich must be a very interesting individual.
I have a solution for him:
I think the time is ripe for him to unleash the Yandex browser to the world, why not?
Good luck my man!
Wrong order (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm quite sure that most people who use Google Chrome do so after finding out about it because they use Google as a search engine.
So its basically the other way around.
Moreoever, you can change the default search engine, so WOW, issue solved!
Also the only reason I ever heard of Yandex was because I saw their scraper on my website. I had never heard about it before. I guess Google is doing a GREAT job choking them.
Re:Chrome doesn't offer a choice? News to me (Score:5, Insightful)
The bundling problem always had to do with Microsoft using a monopoly in one market (OS) to gain significant market share in another market (web browsers.) It had nothing to do with having to pay for unwanted bundles (at least in the US.) Otherwise, Microsoft might have needed to unbundle things like Notepad, Wordpad, Paint, etc. I sure know that I never would have wanted those, preferring WinVi and a real painting tool.
So Google has turned Microsoft's game on it's head, they have gained a significant share in one market (Web Browsers) to sustain what is practically a monopoly in another (Internet Search). When I installed Chrome it did not pop up a window and offer me a choice of which search engine to use. How many people bother to click their way into the settings menu and pick a search engine other than Google whey they set up Chrome? I'd be surprised if they more than a small percentage. Chrome provides Google with a very powerful tool for gathering data on the browsing habits of millions of people that is rivaled only by those omnipresent Facebook buttons.
Posting anonymously to avoid being modded down by legions of Googlebots furiously lecturing me on how none of this is really anything to worry about because Google isn't evil and would never ever abuse it's position unlike Microsoft which is the spawn of Satan.