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Richard Blumenthal: “But, you know, I've been trying to think of the analogy here to what the ordinary consumer can understand as what Google…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2011
But, you know, I've been trying to think of the analogy here to what the ordinary consumer can understand as what Google does, and as I sat here, you know, the racetrack analogy. You run the racetrack, you own the racetrack. For a long time you had no horses. Now you have horses and you have control over where those horses are placed, and your horses seem to be winning.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Blumenthal uses a racetrack analogy to describe Google's control over its search results.

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