Företaget Google är i dag ett av världens mest kända varumärke och deras sökmotor står för 70 % av internetsökningarna i USA och 90 % i Europa. De har lyckats få en dominans på sökmotorsmarknaden framför sina konkurrenter som Yahoo, Ask och Bing. Människor över hela världen använder flera utav Googles tjänster varje dag och många av dem reflekterar inte över den makt som Google har. Kan den här monopolliknande positionen Google har vara så pass transparent att användarna inte ens reflekterat över det? Vår önskan med uppsatsen är att ge läsaren en inblick i Googles varumärkesstrategi och hur användarnas attityder är gentemot företaget. Vi vill ta reda på om användarnas attityder stämmer överens med vad Google vill kommunicera till sina användare och om användarna reflekterar över den maktposition och dominans Google har på internet. För att samla empiriska data, valde vi att göra en webbenkät som besvarades av medie- och kommunikationsstudenter på Högskolan i Jönköping. Utifrån resultatet kunde vi konstatera att en stor del av respondenterna är väl medvetna om den dominans och maktposition som Google har på marknaden. Trots denna medvetenhet har vi inte sett detta påverka respondenternas generella attityder om Google som företag. Däremot kunde vi urskilja viss skepticism hos respondenterna när det kom till en del av Googles funktioner. / Google is today one of the world’s most known brand and their search engine stand for 70 % of the internet searches i the U.S. and 90 % for those i Europe. That means that they have managed to reach monopoly on the search engine market prior to its competitors such as Yahoo, Ask and Bing. People all over the world use several of Google’s services each day and many of them doesn’t reflect over the power that Google has. Can this monopoly and their positions of power be that translucent that the users don’t reflect on it? Our desire with this thesis is to give the reader a deeper understanding about Google’s marketing strategy and about the user’s attitudes towards the company. We want to find out if the attitudes of the user’s correspond to what Google wants to communicate to its users. We also want to find out if the users reflect any on the monopoly and positions of power that Google has on the Internet. To be able to gain empirical data, we chose to design a web-based survey and had media and communications student at Jönköping University to answer it. From the results we found that a large proportion of the respondents is very much aware of the monopoly and positions of power that Google has on the market. However, despite this awareness we could not see that this affected the user’s general attitudes towards the company. On the other hand, we could notice some skepticism when it came to some of the functions of Google’s services.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:24:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lygia Maria Moreno Molina Henrique.pdf: 615418 bytes, checksum: c987b4fdb53a154420790f23c0ef6d1f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-22 / This work has as its central point the study of the right to protection of personal data and how this right is related to the flow of personal data, driven by dynamic new Internet economy. Reflectively, we will analyze issues relevant to the topic and to the current moment, starting with a social approach, broader and more comprehensive, which unfolded form will culminate in the development of the protection of personal data, both in international law, as in Brazil. Also, it will be object of study the use of data as a raw material for the provision of the services offered by companys.com, in order to create innovation and increase competition between them. As well as, we will demonstrate which options of control and protection of personal data the consumer / user has to protect their privacy. Conclusively, by evaluation of brazilian legislative propositions about personal data protection, we will issue a critical-reflective judgment about the failures and successes of each one front to the topics relevant to the protection of personal data / Essa dissertação tem como ponto central o estudo do direito à proteção de dados pessoais e de que modo este direito se relaciona com a circulação de dados pessoais, impulsionada pela nova e dinâmica economia da Internet. De forma reflexiva, analisaremos questões pertinentes ao tema e ao momento atual, iniciando com uma abordagem social, mais ampla e abrangente, a qual de forma desdobrada culminará na evolução da tutela de dados pessoais, tanto na legislação internacional, como na brasileira. Será ainda, objeto de estudo a utilização dos dados como matéria-prima para prestação dos serviços das empresas.com, de modo a criar inovações e acirrar a concorrência entre estas. Assim como, vamos demonstrar quais as opções de controle e tutela em relação à circulação de dados pessoais o consumidor/usuário possui a resguardar sua privacidade. De modo conclusivo, mediante a avaliação das proposituras legislativas brasileiras acerca da proteção de dados pessoais, emitiremos um juízo crítico-reflexivo sobre as falhas e êxitos de cada propositura, frente aos temas relevantes à tutela de dados pessoais