FAZ – - Although Google placed his lower competition, the Group is one … escaped Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         
 
                                           
 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

About two years ago went to America an antitrust case against Google over, and to the surprise of many observers came the Internet Group assumes very lightly. The Federal Trade Commission decided not to file suit, and Google made only a few minor concessions in its business practices. Critics of the company since then look to Europe and hope that the European Commission has been upheld harder in their ongoing competitive process.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                             

. Author: Roland Lindner, born in 1970, business correspondent in New York Follow:

But now bring the antitrust investigations in America Google again here, and it turns out that at that time even with the FTC advocates of harsher punishment of Google gave. As the “Wall Street Journal” reported, then the competition department of the Authority submitted a comprehensive report on the practices of Google recommending that a lawsuit. “Google has maintained its monopoly unlawful manner,” it said in it.

                         
         
         
                                                             

However, the five-member commission did not follow at the end of the recommendation and refrained from a lawsuit. It is considered unusual for the Commission differs from such internal recommendations. However, the Commission had, according to the newspaper still present a second report from another group that spoke out against a lawsuit.

                         
         
         
                                                             

But also that the Authority was so divided, is remarkable, especially since Google the outcome of the proceedings at that time as a victory celebrated across the board. “The conclusion is clear: The Google services are good for users and good for competition,” chief legal officer David Drummond wrote in a blog entry

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The competition department set out at that time with four possible cartel offenses apart and recommended action in three cases. In the central point in the process, whether Google manipulates its search engine at the expense of competitors in favor of its own services, was recommended though no action. But again, the Department concluded that Google has harmed its competitors. Google have followed the strategy to downgrade competitors in the results of its search engine or not to show. The decision to suggest to the Commission on this point no action has been scarce. Also during the investigations in Europe is Google’s dealings with competitors in the Internet search techniques.

                                                                                                                 
 
  

 
 
 
                       

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Google narrowly escaped harsher punishment

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The case is two years old: Google search results manipulated to its own services better for Sale than competitors. The judgment is failed then the least. But now it comes out that the Group has narrowly escaped a lawsuit.

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