Possible Anti-Trust Probe for Google in 2012
January 6, 2012
Will there be yet more friction for the GOOG in 2012? Search Engine Watch reports, “US Senators Ask FTC to Launch formal Anti-Trust Investigation into Google.” The Senators, Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Mike Lee (R-UT), completed their own investigation via subcommittee in September. While they don’t accuse Google of wrongdoing, they say the matter should be looked into more thoroughly. The article reveals:
The senators added that a key question for the FTC is whether Google favors its own online properties when serving search results, and suggested that Google’s own executives had admitted as much during the subcommittee hearings. Kohl and Lee have also asked the FTC to consider what Google could do with Android, warning that the firm could force hardware manufacturers that use the operating system to set its search engine as the default.
Strong points; we’ll see how far it goes.
Google must be used to this sort of finger pointing. I suppose they’ve decided all the negative attention, and litigation, are worth it in their pursuit of Web domination.
Cynthia Murrell, January 6, 2012
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