More Calls for a Google Probe
April 10, 2011
In “Why US antitrust regulators should probe Google search,” The Register reports that the US Department of Justice is might bring suit against Google. At issue: does its deal to acquire ITA Software pose a monopoly risk in the flight search market?
The American Antitrust Institute looks to the future when it questions Google’s reach in multiple markets. If the flight search market, why not many, many others?
Says the Institute’s Robert Lande:
” ‘Our big fear is that as Google gobbles up these related markets, including the travel search market, that will sound the death knell for Microsoft,’ he tells The Register. ‘What happens in a world with one search engine?’ “
In the EU, they have been looking in to similar issues, particularly into Google’s Universal Search. Foundem, a vertical search company in the UK, has complained that Google’s prominently plugging its own services in the search results harms competitors. Um, yeah.
We’ll be keeping an eye on both these cases.
Cynthia Murrell, April 10, 2011
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