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...monopolistic monster who will crush openness and innovation on the Internet. You are saying the same thing about Google. Don't fight, fellas; you're both right! Google is massively dominant in the ad-serving market, and with Yahoo! under its belt, Microsoft would run both of the biggest Web portals around. There are no underdogs to root for. There's room for everybody to be a little evil here...
...Average Web User...
...look carefully, underhanded ploys to secure it. Microsoft has pinned a lot of its hopes for future growth on this business. The risk with a huge, diversified entity like the merged Microsoft-Yahoo! is that it would get up to dirty tricks like diverting Web surfers to its own pages rather than to the most relevant search results. That would subvert the Web's promise and your power to choose. Don't let them...
...longer important; in a quantified world, a given quality’s inability to cram into the cell of a spreadsheet has become a fatal flaw.And now the culture of quantification has leached down to the practice of everyday learning, with the exploding popularity of several new student-made web tools that offer a searchable directory of courses by their scores on the Q evaluation index. These web tools distort an already skewed view of academics at Harvard by contributing to a culture that values quantity at the expense of quality.In a less-enlightened day, students once browsed through...
...Web site’s 16-member steering committee includes Harvard professor of biological oceanography James J. McCarthy, who could not be reached for comment...