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Microsoft undermines its own case
One of my favorite stories in the ongoing saga over the regulation (and thus the future) of Internet search emerged earlier this week with claims by Google that Microsoft has been copying its...
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On the ethical dimension of l’affair hiybbprqag
Former TOTM blog symposium participant Joshua Gans (visiting Microsoft Research) has a post at TAP on l’affair hiybbprqag, about which I blogged previously here. Gans notes, as I did, that Microsoft is...
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Investigating Search Bias: Measuring Edelman & Lockwood’s Failure to Measure...
Last week I linked to my new study on “search bias.” At the time I noted I would have a few blog posts in the coming days discussing the study. This is the first of those posts. A lot of the frenzy...
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Extending & Rebutting Edelman & Lockwood on Search Bias
In my last post, I discussed Edelman & Lockwood’s (E&L’s) attempt to catch search engines in the act of biasing their results—as well as their failure to actually do so. In this post, I...
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How Much Search Bias Is There?
My last two posts on search bias (here and here) have analyzed and critiqued Edelman & Lockwood’s small study on search bias. This post extends this same methodology and analysis to a random...
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Is Google Search Bias Consistent with Anticompetitive Foreclosure?
In my series of three posts (here, here and here) drawn from my empirical study on search bias I have examined whether search bias exists, and, if so, how frequently it occurs. This, the final post in...
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Forget remedies – FairSearch doesn’t even have a valid statement of harm in...
After more than a year of complaining about Google and being met with responses from me (see also here, here, here, here, and here, among others) and many others that these complaints have yet to offer...
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Debunking the Myth of a Data Barrier to Entry for Online Services
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in incorporating privacy into antitrust analysis. The FTC and regulators in Europe have rejected these calls so far, but certain scholars and activists...
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New Paper: The Problems and Perils of Bootstrapping Privacy and Data into an...
The CPI Antitrust Chronicle published Geoffrey Manne’s and my recent paper, The Problems and Perils of Bootstrapping Privacy and Data into an Antitrust Framework as part of a symposium on Big Data in...
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The DOJ’s Antitrust Case Against Google: A Tough Slog, but Maybe an...
[TOTM: The following is part of a digital symposium by TOTM guests and authors on the law, economics, and policy of the antitrust lawsuits against Google. The entire series of posts is available...
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