More Information Mounting in Anti-Trust Cases to Take Google Down
November 15, 2011
Tech Eye News reports on a piece to the ongoing antitrust cases jigsaw puzzle in their article, “Search Outfit Argues Panda Key to Google Antitrust Case.” Foundem, a product search site has asserted that Google directly targets household name search sites through the Panda algorithm.
Foundem initiated the European Commission antitrust investigation after witnessing their site drop down the page rankings upon the introduction of Universal Search in 2007.
We learned about the following perspective from the article:
Foundem does have some compelling data, which aims to show that Google has abused its position when it moved into product search. Google boss Schmidt was called before the Senate in September to discuss antitrust allegations, and it is Foundem’s research that was used to illustrate the dominance of Google’s product search.
Foundem believes they have support for stopping Google in their attempts to monopolize every technology market possible. Microsoft-owned Ciao and French search site Twenga have approached the European Commission in regards to Google as well.
Our opinion is that Google, as a search giant trying to integrate other services and applications has been forward thinking enough to stay on top thus far. We don’t see them weakening any time in the near future unless there is enough brute force to take them down.
Megan Feil, November 15, 2011
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