Professor Greg Taylor
Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Greg Taylor's research focuses on the economics of competition policy and regulation for digital and technology markets.
Recorded:
28 Feb 2011
28 Feb 2011
Speakers:
With Professor Greg Taylor
With Professor Greg Taylor
Filming venue:
Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom
Google is so ubiquitous, and so intertwined with modern life that its very name has become a verb. Peeling away the sterile white facade reveals a hive of economic activity and along with it a battery of interesting questions for social scientists to address.
In this lecture we examine Google’s place in the Internet search industry, learn why Google’s biggest competitor may be itself, think about how a multi-billion dollar auction allocates the Web’s most prized real estate, and see that pay-per-click can make searching easier for everyone. In the process, economics will emerge as a powerful tool in the quest to understand social and commercial interactions, and to formulate policy for the digital age.
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