John M. Simpson
John M. Simpson is an American consumer rights advocate and former journalist. Since 2005, he has worked for Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan nonprofit public interest group, as the lead researcher on Inside Google, the group's effort to educate the public about Google's dominance over the internet and the need for greater online privacy.
Traffic Report: How Google Is Squeezing Out Competitors and Muscling Into New Markets
Google has been muscling into new web markets and greatly expanding its dominance of other web commerce sectors since 2007, when the web search...
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