The question of Google is very interesting because, to my mind, it is the problem that we meet when we are confronted to a quasi-monopoly situation. I was totally a pro google before. Indeed, it offers amazing possibilities: great and best searches on the web and a fantastic software to make you discover the world (Google earth), a good webmail (Gmail)… and all of it for free!

Yet, Google has now become a huge company. Its stock-valuation is bigger than General Motors!! (more than 130 billion dollars). Google controls a lot of other websites and services on the web. (You tube…) Its sponsored-links system is present everywhere.

Furthermore, Google keeps every search that had been done on its website and we don’t really know what they do with this huge amount of information. Google has also a lot of information on its users and can sell it to advertisers or other companies… To my mind, this darkness concerning private information and Google’s control on the net is very obscur and can be a little bit frightenning…

I am very worried to see the internet become a “linear” way of communication -which means 1 transmitter and 1 receiver-, controlled by companies and so on…

I am probably very naive but I like to think that the internet is something else than a business.

Even if I am not an idealist or an anti-capitalist and I think I do understand the stakes and the globalisation realities, I don’t think Internet-empires are the good way to improve creativity and communication in a generous way.