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From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

I'm too shy to talk to you.

So I just go go your name.

Cougo, cucko, cucko, cucko, cucko, cucko, cucko, co, co, co, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, your name. Consider this golden oldie. Consider this golden oldie.

For everyone that asketh, receive it, and he that seeketh, findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall be open.

Remember who said that?

No problem. Just ask.

Seek and knock online.

In other words, Google it.

This hour we will explore the many ways in which Google,

Google if, for better or worse, starting with the implications of its gargantuan size.

For years, the world's dominant search engine has been in the crosshairs of antitrust watchdogs seeking a level playing field for competitors.

Currently, Google faces a Federal Trade Commission investigation

and ongoing European government probes.

But so far, says Danny Sullivan, proprietor of the website Search Engine Land,

no one can find any proof that Google is strong-arming its competitors.

And that's one of their biggest defenses that they continue to say,

that people are voluntarily choosing them.

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