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Candidates Find Incumbent Advantage Extends To Web
Thirteen years in the House and a stint as majority leader have furnished Rep.Roy Blunt, R-Mo., with useful GOP and K Street support for his Senate bid. But Blunt's long resume also means a boost from another source: Google. Google's overwhelming dominance of the search market has brought its power to determine marketplace outcomes under new scrutiny this year. Tech company Foundem and other so-called "search neutrality" advocates allege that the search engine is gaining an unfair advantage by favoring its own products in searches. The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog wrote the Justice Department last week urging it to investigate the issue, while the European Commission is already checking out complaints from Foundem and others.
Continue reading...Google Faces New Antitrust Complaints
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Earlier this month, the shopping comparison search engine myTriggers brought an antitrust action against Google, alleging that the search giant unfairly lowered myTriggers' quality score. This afternoon, the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog piled on. Consumer Watchdog called for the Department of Justice to investigate whether Google "is manipulating" search results by returning its own sites high in the search results.
Continue reading...Google Books Settlement Facing Scrutiny
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Concerns center on possible monopoly, invasion of privacy John M. Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a California-based non-profit, said a key problem is the unfair competitive advantage Google receives under the settlement that comes from its attempt to pull an end-run around the appropriate legislative solution to the orphan books problem. “This is not an issue for a court and certainly one that cannot be settled by solving the problem for one large corporation and no one else,” he said in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week.
Continue reading...Is Google neutral or not? Does it matter?
Monday, December 15, 2008
The Wall Street Journal touched off a debate Monday in an article suggesting that Internet giant ...
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
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