{"id":6195,"date":"2015-01-13T08:05:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6195"},"modified":"2015-01-13T08:05:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T14:05:47","slug":"europe-is-wrong-to-take-asledgehammer-to-big-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6195","title":{"rendered":"Europe is wrong to take aSledgehammer to Big Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/evgenymorozov.tumblr.com\/post\/107976715275\/my-oped-in-ft\">Evgeny Morozov<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is the continent\u2019s favourite hobby, and even the European Parliament cannot resist: having a pop at the world\u2019s biggest search engine. In a recent and largely symbolic vote, representatives urged that Google search should be separated from its other services \u2014 demanding, in essence, that the company be broken up.<br \/>&nbsp;This would benefit Google\u2019s detractors but not, alas, European citizens. Search, like the social networking sector dominated by Facebook, appears to be a natural monopoly. The more Google knows about each query \u2014 who is making it, where and why \u2014 the more relevant its results become. A company that has organised, say, 90 per cent of the world\u2019s information would naturally do better than a company holding just one-tenth of that information.<br \/>&nbsp;But search is only a part of Google\u2019s sprawling portfolio. Smart thermostats and self-driving cars are information businesses, too. Both draw on Google\u2019s bottomless reservoirs of data, sensors such as those embedded in hardware, and algorithms. All feed off each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evgeny Morozov: It is the continent\u2019s favourite hobby, and even the European Parliament cannot resist: having a pop at the world\u2019s biggest search engine. In a recent and largely symbolic vote, representatives urged that Google search should be separated from its other services \u2014 demanding, in essence, that the company be broken up.&nbsp;This would benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}