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Barry-xlovecam · 06-23-2011, 12:21 PM

FTC launching antitrust probe over Google

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[G]oogle is about to get served?with a civil subpoena, that is. The Federal Trade Commission is on the verge of serving Google as part of a formal antitrust investigation into Google's Web dominance, according to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal, with the requests for more information expected to be sent to Google "within days." ...

alias · 06-23-2011, 12:27 PM

About time.

seeandsee · 06-23-2011, 12:32 PM

Google will need to pay for some stuff?

_Richard_ · 06-23-2011, 12:51 PM

what a joke

bean-aid · 06-23-2011, 12:56 PM

I noticed a large drop in serps when I purchased adwords for a site. Time frame was immediate and returned the moment I stopped the campaign.

Not the investigation in the article but...

Tempest · 06-23-2011, 01:54 PM

Been wondering when this would finally happen.

MrMaxwell · 06-23-2011, 04:31 PM

This has been a long time coming

dynastoned · 06-23-2011, 04:34 PM

shit google already has a strangle hold on all traffic on the web imo. there is like 10-20% that gets by them the rest runs directly through google.

jigg · 06-23-2011, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by beaner

I noticed a large drop in serps when I purchased adwords for a site. Time frame was immediate and returned the moment I stopped the campaign.

Not the investigation in the article but...

weird, I was having a hard time getting a site indexed it went from 100 pages to 2000+ after I bought an adwords campaign.

Barry-xlovecam · 06-23-2011, 10:37 PM

This will probably turn out to be a dog and pony show ... We'll see ...

PGR · 06-23-2011, 10:46 PM

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Google has come under fire over the last year or so for its search- and ad-related business practices, with most of the activity taking place in Europe. The European Commission began an investigation in early 2010 after several of Google's competitors filed complaints against the company. Price comparison site Foundem and legal search engine ejustice both accused Google of limiting competition by keeping their search rankings low on an algorithmic level?the Commission later announced that it was opening a formal antitrust investigation into the allegations.

Microsoft soon followed with its own formal complaint against Google in the EU as well, accusing the search giant of favoring itself when growing its search, advertising, and content tools. "

Or to put it more simply: Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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