My letter was published in the Financial Times today. Here, for posterity, is the letter in full…
Search neutrality keeps the internet dynamic
Published: Financial Times July 20 2010 02:15
From Mr Adil Allawi
Sir, Google’s Marissa Mayer (“Do not neutralise the web’s endless search”, July 15) is right to say that government regulation will stifle innovation in a [...]
Now don’t get me wrong. I like Microsoft and they can come up with some really good technology. But you just have to wonder about their marketing department sometimes.
Their latest Arabic effort, Maren, is arguably a nice tool (albeit not an original idea) that intelligently converts transliterated Arabic typed on an English keyboard into real [...]
I was watching a program on the Amazon (river not bookshop) the other day about a group of scientists measuring the carbon absorbed by the rain forest. Why? So that Brazil can trade the carbon absobed by its trees on the internatonal carbon credit market. On the surface - sounds great - save the trees [...]
