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		dpatru on March 1, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What An Antitrust Case Against Google Might Look L... It strikes me as extremely ironic that the government, an organization which uses force to fund massively wasteful, unaccountable bureaucracies, should be concerned that Google, a organization which does not charge most of its users, is gouging consumers.

anatoli on March 1, 2009 | [–]

> a organization which does not charge most of its users

But the problem is, they are gouging (some of) their customers. It's just not the end users, it's the businesses.

dmaclay on March 1, 2009 | [–]

You don't get it, to Google advertisers are the customers, the so called 'users' are product.

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