Deceptive Display Posts
Roundup of Comments on Google’s Proposed Commitments to European Commission
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
The European Commission today announced Google’s proposed commitments to settle allegations that it is abusing its dominance by giving preferential treatment to its own services in display and ranking of search results. Google proposal to label where it promotes its own products above generic search results and offer links to “three rival specialised search services Read more »
Psychologist Finds Google Could Sway an Election with Search Manipulation
Friday, April 5th, 2013
Research psychologist Richard Epstein has made a provocative and stunning discovery through a series of experiments manipulating search results: Google could sway an election without much notice. According to stories in The Washington Post and PBS, Epstein’s hypothetical Kadoodle search engine found candidates fared far better when favorable links were promoted and unfavorable ones were Read more »
Consumer Group Calls for Google to Offer ‘Objective, Non-discriminatory’ Search Results
Monday, March 25th, 2013
A European consumer group has echoed FairSearch’s call for strong remedies to end Google’s search bias and anti-competitive practices under investigation by the European Commission. On March 22, BEUC, a consortium of 39 national consumer organizations from thirty European countries, issued a six-page paper on the remedies that should be adopted to resolve Google’s anti-competitive Read more »
Politico Pro: Rosch Wanted to Sue Google for Deceptive Practices
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Politico Pro reported today that there is more to the story of the Federal Trade Commission’s disappointing decision to not address Google’s deceptive and anti-competitive practices in a meaningful way. J. Thomas Rosch, the outgoing FTC commissioner who often was the swing vote on the commission, told Politico Pro he sought to sue Google for Read more »
New York Times Editorial: Google’s Bias Could “Result in Fewer Choices for Consumers”
Monday, January 7th, 2013
In a series of reported stories and a strong unsigned editorial, The New York Times has vividly illustrated the faults with the Federal Trade Commission’s disappointing ruling in its antitrust investigation of Google. In a Jan. 4 editorial, the Times said the ruling “does not completely settle the question of whether the company, which is Read more »
Does Google Harm Consumers? Bloomberg Editors Say ‘Yes’
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Today the Federal Trade Commission issued the disappointing decision to pass on compelling Google to end its anti-competitive search manipulation practices that favor the prominent display of its own products. Rather, the FTC and Google agreed for the search giant to end other anti-competitive practices, largely through a voluntary agreement that lacks the kind of Read more »
Jones Harbour: FTC Should Address Google Search Bias
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Pamela Jones Harbour, a former Federal Trade Commission commissioner, today penned an opinion piece in The New York Times urging the agency to take on Google’s practice of promoting its own products in search results. Jones Harbour mentioned reports that the FTC might forgo action on Google’s search bias in exchange for “some modest changes Read more »
FTC Must Protect America’s Consumers, Innovators
Monday, December 17th, 2012
A statement from FairSearch.org: “It’s vital that the FTC live up to its mission of ‘protecting America’s consumers’ by taking a strong, legally binding enforcement action to permanently end Google’s biased display of search results and other harmful abuses of monopoly power that threaten to reduce consumer choice and innovation in Internet services. Enforcement authorities should not Read more »
NYT: Europeans Insisting Google Address Search Bias
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
While the Federal Trade Commission is reportedly focused on other anti-competitive practices than Google’s biased search results in settlement talks with Google, Joaquín Almunia, vice president of the European Commission and the commissioner responsible for competition, is apparently focused on finding a solution to this crucial issue that represents the most harmful conduct by Google. Read more »
Yelp CEO Stoppelman Criticizes Google for Being Evil
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Jeremy Stoppelman, founder and CEO of Yelp, told the U.S. Senate how Google’s anti-competitive practices are a drag on innovative entrepreneurs when he said he would not start his company over again today knowing what he does now about how Google abuses its monopoly power. According to a CNET report, Stoppelman told a Business Insider Read more »
