Google News Posts

What Google Isn’t Saying in “How Search Works”

Friday, March 8th, 2013

Last week, Google launched “How Search Works,” an interactive website that explains “the entire life of a search query” on the company’s sites, though scrolling through the site reveals that Google’s site leaves a few important things out of its explanation. Search Bias The site describes search results pages that can take a variety of Read more »

NYT: “Google Casts a Big Shadow on Smaller Web Sites”

Monday, November 5th, 2012

In a lengthy Nov. 3 piece, The New York Times reporting explains in detail how Google exerts enormous control over the fate of smaller Websites, often controlling their destiny with little recourse for companies harmed by inexplicable shifts in its search and business practices. “The relationship between Google and Web sites, publishers and advertisers often Read more »

WSJ Column Misses the Mark on FTC’s Google Review

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

“What people really want are answers,” Wall Street Journal columnist L. Gordon Crovitz recently opined in a column defending Google’s acquisition of the Frommer’s travel brand and criticizing the ongoing Federal Trade Commission investigation of the company. It’s not the first time Crovitz has bought into Google’s spin on its anticompetitive behavior and misrepresented the Read more »

European Union Continues Investigation into Google’s Possible Antitrust Abuses

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

The New York Times reports that European antitrust investigators are asking advertisers to provide information about Google via a confidential questionnaire.  The questionnaire “seeks to ascertain whether Google manipulated search results and used its popular platform to keep business and disadvantage rivals in online advertising and Internet search.” The New York Times reports that: “In Read more »