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In the small matter of the proposed acquisition of Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners V, LP, (Click Holding Company) By Google Inc., File No. 071 0170, only one FTC Commissioner offered a dissent. Here's a link to Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour's dissent (13pp .pdf)

Having been the point person for statistical targeting at the W3C's P3P Spec WG, I think the majority blew it, at least on the privacy issue.

If the EU approves the acquisition we'll block Google's address blocks and ban its spiders, as we currently do for DoubleClick's address blocks and spiders.

Why anyone on the left hand side of the dial bothers to (a) blog about the noxious national security mania and (b) run Google Ads is just one of those little inconsistencies "benefit" brings to any calculus of motive and belief.

Time to look at the alternative search engines.