Will Google Be Buried Alive by Legal Eagle Outputs?
April 23, 2011
As Larry Page takes over as the CEO of Google, according to the Datamation article “Will Google Be Lawyered to Death?” Google is headed for a turbulent legal ride.
Google is facing calls for a mounting wave of lawsuits, investigations and other actions by grandstanding government agencies, lawmakers and attorneys general.
Google must address three main issues, abuse of search engine dominance, manipulation of search engine results and privacy. Currently the Department of Justice has launched a lawsuit to stop Google’s $700 million purchase of ITA Software as the Federal Trade Commission contemplates its next legal move against the company. Google who currently owns about 65% of the search engine market in the United States is being hit in all directions as European and even Swiss officials are waging war. Just as in the past with companies such as Microsoft, Google is running out of safety nets and it’s only a matter of time before they are forced to pay up.
With the loss of the Linux matter in Texas, Google might find itself under a large amount of legal eagle outputs.
April Holmes, April 23, 2011
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