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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

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

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