While competitors such as Microsoft and vertical search engines such as Nextag have complained and will continue to complain that Google favors its own services unfairly, others think the FTC case was weak in the first place.

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And we need to learn to put ourselves first in some cases and not always think that the weight of the community, the weight of others is sort of resting on our shoulders.

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"On a lot of substantive issues like health insurance, he was the first one out of the box with a very ambitious universal plan, and I think he forced the others to become bolder in a lot of their policy prescriptions, energy dependence and so on, " Klein said.

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