Yahoo and Microsoft have teamed up to challenge Google. As I understand the deal, Microsoft’s technology will power Yahoo!’s search pages and related advertising. This new relationship between the second and third most popular search engines in the American market is being promoted as a way to encourage more competition, since Google presently has approximately two-thirds of the American market.
Good or Bad for Competition?
Yahoo and Microsoft have teamed up to challenge Google. As I understand the deal, Microsoft’s technology will power Yahoo!’s search pages and related advertising. This new relationship between the second and third most popular search engines in the American market is being promoted as a way to encourage more competition, since Google presently has approximately two-thirds of the American market.
Clarifying
In all the talk about healthcare being “socialized medicine,” there has been precious little effort made to DEFINE the difference between, for example, “socialized medicine” systems and single-payer systems.
The best description of the difference I’ve come across is this:
The Policy Process
Those of us who teach public administration and policy proceed on the (generally unarticulated) assumption that policy debates are “evidence-based”–that is, that parties to a policy discussion begin with a general agreement about the nature and subject of the argument–should we pass this bill, which will do X or Y? Should we contract out this function to a for-profit or non-profit entity?
Deja Vu? Or Better Luck This Time?
Is it “déjà vu all over again” in the health care debate?