GOOGLE / MOVEON FALLOUT? Reader Bill Smith emails:

After reading your post from yesterday where a reader described yanking 50% of their advertising, I decided to yank 100% my company’s advertising from Google. This has been bothering me for years. I wrote an email to Google telling them essentially that a company of their size should show some maturity and leave the sophomoric behavior to the political operatives. If enough CEOs, Presidents and senior executives do the same, Google will take notice and decide to limit the partisan politics to personal contributions.

With Google’s dominant market position, a perception of partisanship could be quite dangerous. It could certainly cost ad money, and also accelerate tendencies toward antitrust regulation.

UPDATE: Some related thoughts from Ron Coleman.