26.03.2015 - 07:02 [ Techdirt ]

Accidentally Revealed FTC Document Details Some Questionable Google Practices, But Not The Ones Most People Focused On

Specifically, most of the focus on Google‘s potential „anti-trust“ activists has been on its impact on „competing“ search engines, specifically „vertical“ search engines for things like „local,“ „travel,“ and „shopping.“ And the report disclosed pretty clear evidence that Google purposely pushed down some of those results to promote its own results — but there were good reasons for this, and as such, it appears that pretty much everyone at the FTC — including those who wanted to punish Google for other things, agreed that there was no antitrust violation here.