http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/feb2011/ca2011024_853469.htm
In the above article, it talks about how Google believes that Microsoft is copying their search results. You can read about how technically through the toolbar application and gibberish searches Google claims that Microsoft is stealing their results.
As stated within the article, Google is strange to be the one criticizing other companies for copy writing or stealing. They acquired YouTube which has an enormous amount of copyright infringement clips.
Microsoft used "user behavior" in finding out the searches. "Microsoft received user permission for these observations. And information about users' click patterns is users'information—not Google's." states the article.
Google's click patterns were sent to Microsoft—just as Microsoft's privacy policy and other disclosures said they would be." So when the Google employee's installed the toolbar, then they agreed to the terms, whether they read them or not. My question to you is do you believe that Google is in the wrong or right here? Do you think that Bing will ever come close to competing with Google? Please comment below/
-Matt Blachowicz
At first thought I felt Google was in the wrong. It is never a good idea to point the finger at someone when you have done the samething. I began to think about what Google was saying and thought that almost all online search enigne are closly related. I mean it is alomost impossible not to look at Google and not use some of the same ideas. This is a good way to to start and can build off what is already establish. And to anwser your question about if I think Bling will ever compete with Google and I say yes. I feel that people are always looking for something new and cool. It may take a little for it catch on, but I think it will when people become more awhere of it.
ReplyDeleteTeam 3 Jeff Blankenship
Dr. Sheep's feedback for your team:
ReplyDeleteIn general, you are off to a relatively good start on your blog. Your posts are interesting in terms of raising issues and questions related to ethics and corporate social responsibility. However, I would encourage you to improve your blog posts in the following ways.
First, some of your posts do a much better job of specifically applying OB course concepts that we have studied to the material posted in order to gain analytical insights to the story (a good example of this is the post on “whistleblowing”). Some of your posts only rise to the level of “reporting,” not analysis. Thus, your blog would improve by all of the posts being more consistently and intentionally analytical in terms of showing how OB concepts and theories apply to your article or whatever you post.
Second, always make sure to reference the source of your material. One post has an article authored by Jessica Sillman, but there is no link to show the source of that article.
Third, as stated in my “first” point above, there are many OB concepts that can be applied to these articles and the ethical or unethical decisions and actions that resulted. However, there are also many “ethics” concepts that we have studied thus far that you could apply—for example, the Model of Ethical Behavior and the Stages of Cognitive Moral Development. I do not see any of these applied in your posts, so this would be a significant area of improvement. Nearly every chapter in the textbook has a significant section on how ethics can apply to the topics covered in that chapter. You should use some of these sections to enlighten and inform your blog posts—in other words, directly apply the concepts in these chapters on ethics. This would make your blog a more valuable resource for the rest of the MQM 221 class in future posts. Overall, keep up the good work in terms or raising interesting issues, and then improve on your specific application of OB course concepts.