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[ PRIVACY Forum ] F.T.C. Staff Prepares Antitrust Case Against Google
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F.T.C. Staff Prepares Antitrust Case Against Google Over Search
http://j.mp/SVruQ7 (New York Times)
"The Federal Trade Commission is raising the ante in its antitrust
confrontation with Google with the commission staff preparing a
recommendation that the government sue the search giant. The
government's escalating pursuit of Google is the most far-reaching
antitrust investigation of a corporation since the landmark federal
case against Microsoft in the late 1990s. Although the investigators
have looked at a wide range of Google's business practices, a main
line of inquiry has been whether Google has manipulated its search
results to favor its own products, and to make it harder for
competitors and their products to appear prominently on a results
page."
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This is hardly a surprise, given the FTC's increasingly sorry focus on
playing technical gotcha instead of dealing with policy issues of
import. Sad to see this once impressive organization seemingly
increasingly so co-opted, desperately searching for harm where none
exists. (Reference: Google, Safari, and a Clamor of Cookie Confusion
- http://j.mp/xGZRcT [Lauren's Blog])
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