search neutrality

Walden: FCC Net Rules Could Lead to Google Regulations

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:03:05 -0500

Full article: Broadcasting and Cable
John Eggerton
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said that the FCC should not regulate Google's business any more than it should ISPs. That came in opening remarks in the Communications Subcommittee legislative hearing on a resolution to invalidate the FCC's new Network Neutrality regulations.

Google Favors Itself 19 Percent of the Time

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:02:27 -0500

Full article: Search Engine Land
Danny Sullivan
For the past year or so, there's been a rising meme that Google is altering its search results in ways to favor itself over competitors. Now a new study is out showing the opposite. Google is far more likely not to show its own products in the first spot of its search results.

Regulating Google's Results?

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:00:06 -0500

Full article: Ars Technica
Nate Anderson
"Neutrality" -- if it's good enough for the core of the Internet, isn't it good enough for the edge? The biggest Internet providers say it is, and they would love to have the government slap a few Net Neutrality rules on Google, just to see how the advertising giant likes the taste of the regulatory bridle.

Google and the New York Times Battle Over Search Neutrality

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:17:34 -0400

Full article: Fast Company
Austin Carr
In competing op-eds published days apart, Google's VP of search product and user experience went head to head with the <em>New York Times</em> editorial board over search neutrality.

Microsoft Worried about Search Neutrality

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:52:23 -0400

Full article: The Hill
Sara Jerome
Microsoft may be the latest company to raise concerns about Google acting as an Internet gatekeeper. Search neutrality is the notion that search engines should not favor certain content, including their own.

Careful What You Wish for Google: Here Comes 'Search Neutrality'

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:58:18 -0400

Full article: Connected Planet
Joan Engebretson
In the "what goes around comes around" category, the idea of "search neutrality" -- or the need for government intervention or regulation to ensure that search results from the likes of Google and other search engines aren't discriminatory -- is starting to gain some traction.

Search Neutrality? How Google Became a 'Neutrality' Target

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:37:37 -0400

Full article: Ars Technica
Nate Anderson
"Search neutrality" now fills the FCC filings of companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T, all of whom see no reason why their businesses should be picked out for regulatory scrutiny while Google goes about its business unmolested. So where did the idea of search neutrality come from, and what does it mean?

Search, but You May Not Find

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:17:35 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Adam Raff
The FCC has proposed Net Neutrality rules, which would prohibit ISPs from discriminating against or charging premiums for certain services or applications on the Web. The commission is correct that ensuring equal access to the infrastructure of the Internet is vital, but it needs to look beyond Network Neutrality and include "search neutrality"

After Net Neutrality, Will We Need 'Google Neutrality?'

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:50:55 -0400

Full article: Ars Technica
Nate Anderson
A leading academic on network economics argues that Net Neutrality is a good thing -- but ISPs aren't the only potential gatekeepers on the Internet. 'Search Neutrality' might be needed next.