42% say no, Google should be left alone. 11% of you don't know either way.
There's still time to cast you vote. Not that the F.T.C. is avidly following Read/WriteWeb's poll (well, I guess that could be a reason for the delay). But seriously, what do you think? Is Google/DoubleClick a monopoly that the US government needs to crack down on?
]]> ]]>Purchases of this magnitude, through companies of this size and influence should always be researched if the FTC is doing its job.
]]>I think that people have learned to fear the omniscience of any company, and after watching the DoJ go after Microsoft and really bad movies like 'Antitrust' most folks have decided that this is the mechanism to quickly tear down the successful (and, therefore, scary).
The reality is that none of this has anything to do with DoubleClick. If you'd launched the same poll two weeks before the DoubleClick announcement you'd have yielded the same results.
]]>Google, with DoubleClick will become a very large player in the internet advertising space. They are far from being the only player and far from what you would call a monopoly, in the same way that Microsoft is a monopoly. Microsoft had all of their anti trust action as a result of them bundling their own software and applications with their operating system that resulted in their competition having no chance of making in roads.
Just because a company becomes BIG, doesn't mean that they should be investigated, but that is right at the heart of capitalism. Make sure you encourage growth and development, as long as it doesn't become so great that an individual or company becomes powerful enough to threaten government.
Um, let's worry about oil companies before we worry about Google!
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