EC Posts
Bloomberg: FTC Investigating Google’s Display Advertising Tactics
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Nearly five months after concluding a previous probe of Google’s anti-competitive practices in search and search advertising, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a new investigation into whether Google is using its lead in the $17.7 billion U.S. display advertising market to undermine competition, according to a report from Bloomberg. The probe, which Bloomberg reports Read more »
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 »
FairSearch Statement on Google’s Proposed Commitments to European Commission
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
The European Commission announced it has opened a ‘market test’ of Google’s proposal to settle the EC’s investigation into allegations of an illegal abuse of dominance by Google, and released Google’s proposal here. Thomas Vinje, counsel and spokesman for FairSearch Europe, issued the following statement: “FairSearch applauds the Commission for laying out a clear and Read more »
FairSearch Statement About Coming ‘Market Test’ Launch
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
The following statement relates to public reports that the European Commission will soon begin a ‘market test’ of Google’s proposal to settle the EC’s investigation into allegations of an illegal abuse of dominance by Google. The most important remedy to Google’s abuse of dominance is to require the search monopoly, which controls 94 percent of Read more »
FairSearch Announces Complaint in EU on Google’s Anti-Competitive Mobile Strategy
Monday, April 8th, 2013
The coalition issued the following in a release: FairSearch to EU: Google’s Android A ‘Trojan Horse’ to Dominate Mobile Markets Files Complaint to European Commission On Google’s Anti-Competitive Mobile Strategy BRUSSELS – April 9, 2013 – FairSearch.org has filed a complaint with the European Commission laying out Google’s anti-competitive strategy to dominate the mobile marketplace 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 »
FairSearch Strongly Supports Decisive Action by European Commission on Google
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
Thomas Vinje, Brussels-based counsel to FairSearch.org, said today: “Google has had ample opportunity to come forward with serious proposals to end its abuses. The time to act is now. FairSearch would strongly support decisive action by the Commission.” Vinje’s comments follow today’s open letter from 11 companies active in Europe, including FairSearch members Foundem, Expedia, Read more »
FairSearch Files Objections to Google’s Top-Domain Name Land Grab
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Last summer, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, invited applications from organizations to acquire and control the administration of new generic top level domains (gTLDs). Confused? A gTLD is the last component of a web address, such as “.com” or “.org.” Not surprisingly, Google is “one of the more ambitious applicants” as Read more »
Google’s ‘Long Tentacles’ Visible at Mobile World Congress, CEOs Note Lack of Competition
Monday, March 11th, 2013
As FairSearch noted last month, Google’s emerging mobile monopoly is starting to raise a lot of eyebrows in the wireless industry. In fact, the lack of competition is so alarming to Mozilla, the nonprofit maker of the Firefox browser, that it built a new mobile operating system. A few weeks ago, Mozilla used the Mobile Read more »
What to Look for in Google’s Offer to the European Commission
Friday, February 1st, 2013
European Commission Vice President Joaquín Almunia said only weeks ago that the key to Google’s abuse of dominance is that the search giant, with more than 90 percent market share, is diverting traffic in the way that it presents its own services. “They are monetizing this kind of business, the strong position they have in Read more »
