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A modest proposal for the Google+ search integration problem This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Monday, January 16, 2012

When it comes to data, Google, Twitter and Facebook should sit down at the bargaining table.

Google’s integration of Google+ and profile information into personalized search results is creating quite a stink. Twitter complained. The Electronic Privacy Information Center sent a letter to the FTC. Charges of favoritism and its being anticompetitive monopoly swirled. Let me make a perhaps contrarian argument that, rather than squabbling, Twitter and Facebook should do some serious negotiating with Google and license data to the search giant in exchange for big fees and reciprocal data sharing. Longtime search watcher John Battelle and I [...]

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