One can't help but feel Empathy for Google this weekend, going over the media reports regarding the search giant. The high of the weeks was probably the reports of Google having reached a historical Internet Milestone in May: being the first website in the Internet's history to attract more than a billion unique visitors in a month. Sadly for Google, the week ended with the company confirming that the US Federal Trade Commission has notified the company of a wide-scale investigation into Google's share of the Internet search & advertising market. Both reports mark the same direction for Google's coming years, and remembering Microsoft's history and the similarities, one cannot help but wonder whether we are seeing the tallest peak Google for the foreseeable future.
Lets be clear about one point: as I've mentioned in the past in the blog, Microsoft is still prospering and it appears that it is still striving as hard as ever to gain its old dominance in a changing world. But regulatory attention of the kind Google is now getting in the U.S (European regulators have been paying close attention for quite some time now), makes competition & innovation so much harder, so it might just be that Google is going to find itself playing with one of its hands tied for some years now.
Lets be clear about one point: as I've mentioned in the past in the blog, Microsoft is still prospering and it appears that it is still striving as hard as ever to gain its old dominance in a changing world. But regulatory attention of the kind Google is now getting in the U.S (European regulators have been paying close attention for quite some time now), makes competition & innovation so much harder, so it might just be that Google is going to find itself playing with one of its hands tied for some years now.
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