Re: Duh
So what you're saying is A) you don't want Google Search to exist any more (because a search engine isn't profitable without other components, like advertising), and B) you want all the rest of Google's offerings to no longer be available as the entire company collapses (because the only thing that makes any money is the ability to advertise against things, with search being the real money draw).
If you broke up Google you might have one piece - website advertisement - that could survive independently, but it would be a pretty small entity that would fade pretty quickly as the market turned to Microsoft. Having the only major search engine left with an integrated advertising system, Microsoft would be able to provide the targeted advertising that advertisers want, leaving the on-website advertising solution that was hived out of the former Google to wither and die.
Everything else Google does would cease, because it's funded by advertising. Amazon would own shopping outright and Microsoft would own everything else. Microsoft, of course, wouldn't be anywhere near as objective as Google, and our ability to search the web effectively would be reduced to pre-2000 levels.
That's what you want?
How many shares in Seattle tech companies do you own, anyways? Google aren't the good guys, but they're a fuck of a lot less awful than the alternatives.
Killing Google to solve perceived conflicts of interest is like trying to solve perceived governmental inefficiency by completely eliminating the government and saying really loudly "no, we won't end up like Somalia, because this time it will be different". There's nothing rational about it, and it won't make anything better for anyone except some sociopathic warlords.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
