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    News - Google faces new antitrust scrutiny

    The FTC and several US states have reportedly started investigations into the search giant.
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    Re: News - Google faces new antitrust scrutiny

    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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    Re: News - Google faces new antitrust scrutiny

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    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.
    It becomes anti-competitive when you have a monopoly.

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    Re: News - Google faces new antitrust scrutiny

    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. :\
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    Re: News - Google faces new antitrust scrutiny

    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


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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
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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
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    Google
    Account Options. Sign in · Search settings · iGoogle. UK. Advanced searchLanguage tools · Advertising ProgrammesBusiness SolutionsAbout GoogleGo to Google. ...
    Google Maps - Images - iGoogle - Shopping
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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.
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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.
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    I then did the same with Bing (whoever dreamt up that name)

    Which bizarrely came up with pages in French (???)

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    But in both cases, their own product was well down the list, so it wasn't true in this case.

    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.
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