PayPerPost Warns U.S. Congress of Google Monopoly: Barack Obama to the Rescue?
PayPerPost CEO Ted Murphy is stirring up a “Posties” revolt, spurring “everyday (i.e. PayPerPost) bloggers” to “write Google, and their Congressman.”
Just as Murphy took to the PayPerPost blog to lambast Google for “censorship” and a “monopolistic stranglehold on search and online advertisng,” however, Google’s fave presidential candidate, Barack Obama, was patting Google and its merry band of multi-millionaire Googlers on their backs during a mutual love fest cum personal political rally under the direction of CEO Eric Schmidt and team at the Googleplex.
Obama is the seventh candidate hoping to be the next president of the United States to make his or her campaign pilgimage to Mountain View. Bill Richardson undoubetdly still is sporting his scars from his “ultimate job interview,” as host Elliot Schrage, VP Global Communications and Public Affairs, led a visceral interrogation of the Governor, spurring Silicon Valley media to cheerfully portray Richardson’s performance as “awkward” and “bumbling.”
Schrage was quoted for condescendingly retorting to his guest, Governor Richardson: “Our nutritionist may end up running for president.”
Barack Obama was welcomed as the favorite Google son, though, with the Official Google Public Policy Blog fawning over the Congressman as the defacto honorary Googler in Chief. Obama has himself to thank, he put in a rocket scientist worthy performance, prepared even to “have a ready answer for a standard Google engineering question.”
Obama also proved himself worthy of the hefty Googler political contributions coming his way: The Obama “technology platform” is a shamelessy pro-Google one.
Moral of the Obama-PayPerPost story? Murphy ought to encourage his “Posties” to “write Obama,” rather than their “congressmen” about any evil Google doing!
What are the alleged Google bad deeds, according to Murphy? Google may have revamped its own proprietary way of evaluating Web page quality for its own use in its own proprietary systems, i.e. the mighty PageRank.
Murphy is calling for a revolt against Google because not only does he believe his PayPerPost blog network is potentially impacted by prospective potential changes in “free” traffic referred by private company Google’s search engine changes, but Murphy has himself used Google’s private, proprietary PageRank calculations as currency to sell his own blog advertising products, characterized by him as “attractive alternatives” to Google AdSense.
Murphy may be able to make a case against Google, nevertheless. After all, Google flaunts that its mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and usefull” and “Posties” posts are decidely part of the “world’s information”!
Murphy is not helping his anti-Google campaign, though, by proudly taking advantage of “Google Custom Search” to power the PayPerPost blog.
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