Google distorts reality, says Austrian study
GOOGLE, The world's largest Internet search engine, is on several fronts a danger that has to be stopped, a study released by Austria's Graz University claims. A research team led by Prof. Hermann Maurer, chairman of Graz University's Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media , argues that Google is turning into a new version of George Orwell's "Big Brother" - creating unacceptable monopolies in many areas of the worldwide web. According to his research, around 61 billion Internet searches are conducted each month. In the US, on average 57 percent of searches are conducted with Google, and up to 95 percent of Internet users use Google at least sometimes. It is dangerous enough that single entity such as Google is dominant as a search engine, Maurer and his co writers say, but the fact that Google is operating many other services and is probably colluding with still further players was "unacceptable". "Google is massively invading priv...