“Unfair practices related to Google’s search engine is now the biggest challenge for the whole internet market,” says head of Allegro, Hein Pretorius. “Everyone thinks that the internet is synonymous with the free market, but 90 percent of the internet traffic is controlled by one company … and without clear rules.”
GAZETA WYBORCA reminds it’s readers that in May this year, several dozen websites had disappeared from Google’s search, including Millennium Bank and the mobile network Play. The problem was that the company websites could not be found when typing into Google search "bank millennium" or "play".
What also disappeared from Google's search was the website belonging to Allegro. Tablica.pl is Poland’s largest second-hand free seller service. The daily says that Tablica.pl is on Google’s blacklist.
The Allegro’s CEO added that they will be open about their frustrations with Google. The company, together with other businesses and organizations, like Nokia, Microsoft and Oracle, have united to “promote economic growth, innovation and choice across the Internet ecosystem by fostering and defending competition in online and mobile search.” FairSearch.org is their coalition platform where companies plan to enforce existing laws to prevent anti-competitive behavior that ultimately harms the consumer.
The ultra-conservative NASZ DZIENNIK newspaper reports on a seminar in Lodz, central Poland, over the weekend where speakers argued that, “globalization has a destructive influence on the family and has some characteristics similar to communism” writes the newspaper.
One of the speakers at the conference, political scientist Dr. Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski noted that the expansion of employment and introduction of eight-hour working days, 100 years ago, also impacted on the model of the family.
Another participant at the conference, right wing journalist, Stanisław Michakiewicz, said that “The core of today’s globalization is neoliberalism, cultural Marxism and nihilism, which attempts to damage Latin civilization. Our problem is not globalization but socialism,” he claimed.
The newspaper also notes what it sees as another threat to the family- Poles are having less and less children.
The daily tabloid FAKT writes that when former left-wing president of Poland married off his only daughter in a lavish ceremony earlier this month, it was emotionally stirring, but the hardest part of the run-up to the wedding was paparazzi interest. He would be trying on clothes and suddenly he’d be photographed in between hangers.
So, now that the wedding is over , the next big event he’s awaiting… grandchildren!
In an interview with web-news portal Onet.pl, Aleksander Kwaśniewski says that he’s only looking at the natural order of things. There’s now a family, and there should be children. Kwaśniewski says that he only wishes the grandchildren would come when he’s still active so that that he can go on family vacations and play sports with the kids.
FAKT mentioned Kwaśniewski dropped a line in the interview that he prefers group activities rather than individual ones… hinting that he would like his daughter, Ola, and her musician husband, Jakub Badach to have more than one child. But he says that’s their decision.