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The FTC and several US states have reportedly started investigations into the search giant.
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The FTC and several US states have reportedly started investigations into the search giant.
I'm sorry, but how exactly is advertising your own services on your own service 'anti-competitive' again? I'm pretty sure that qualifies as marketing in any other industry.
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Originally Posted by aidanjt
How are people suppose to know when Google launches a service when they can't even advertise it without being accused of abusing their search dominance? That's a bit silly tbh. :\
I read it as Google are (allegedly) suppressing results for products other than its own (which would be anti-competitive)
So I did a quick search (on Google) using the term search engine
I then did the same with Bing (whoever dreamt up that name)Quote:
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Dogpile Web Search
All the best search engines piled into one. All the best search engines piled into one. Web · Images · Video · News · Yellow Pages · White Pages ...
White Pages - Images - Preferences - Yellow Pages
www.dogpile.com/ - Cached - Similar
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Bing
Bing is a search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions.
www.bing.com/ - United States - Cached - Similar
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Web search engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine - Cached - Similar
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Yahoo! Search - Web Search
The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the ...
Submit a Site - News
uk.altavista.com/ - Cached - Similar
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Account Options. Sign in · Search settings · iGoogle. UK. Advanced searchLanguage tools · Advertising ProgrammesBusiness SolutionsAbout GoogleGo to Google. ...
Google Maps - Images - iGoogle - Shopping
www.google.co.uk/ - Cached - Similar
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Ask Jeeves Web Search
Ask Jeeves a question and Jeeves will answer it. Britain's leading question-and-answer service is as ready for your questions as ever. Try it now.
www.ask.co.uk/ - Cached
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What is search engine? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia ...
This page describes the term search engine and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information.
www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/search_engine.html - Cached - Similar
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MetaCrawler
Offers a single source to search the Web, images, audio, video, news from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and many more search engines.
www.metacrawler.com/ - Cached - Similar
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Ask.com - What's Your Question?
Which bizarrely came up with pages in French (???)
But in both cases, their own product was well down the list, so it wasn't true in this case.Quote:
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Search Engine And Cheap
·www.NexTag.co.uk
Best Value for Search Engine And. Find NexTag Sellers' Lowest Price!
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Web search engine - Wikipedia, the free…
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o Market share and wars ·
o Search engine bias
A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine
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Dogpile Web Search
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InfoSpace metasearch engine offering search of the general web, or images, audio, video and news. Also offers search of Yellow Pages and White Pages.
www.dogpile.com
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Yahoo! Search - Web Search
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The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web.
search.yahoo.com
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Actualités : search engine
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How Search Engine Can Be More Beneficial to Citizens [interview]
Jun 24, 2011 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The General Manager VConnect Nigeria, Mr. Deepankar Rustagi in this interview with Nahimah…TMCnet· Il y a 24 minutes
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Web address boom could be search engine boon
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Baidu Announces Agreement to Invest US$306 Million in Travel Search Engine Qunar
Redorbit.com
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The local version of this pre-eminent search engine, offering UK-specific pages as well as world results.
www.google.co.uk
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Bing
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Bing is a search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions.
www.bing.com
Hardly scientific, and perhaps if I had used a different product, the results would have been different, but it seems to be open season against Google at the moment.