Google Antitrust Suit May Go Forward

TechForensics writes "KinderStart, whose page hits and AdSense revenue dropped sharply after changes by Google demoted its appearance in search results, brought suit claiming the search engine effectively suppressed its first amendment rights by lowering the site's visibility. While the Court rejected that argument out-of-hand, it appeared more amenable to KinderStart's argument that since it was a search page, Google's suppression of a rival search engine is prohibited by antitrust laws. The suit may go forward with the judge's commentary."

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Which just goes to show...

[Anonymous Coward]

...that you're not a monopoly until the first antitrust suit shows up.

and you're not a true monopoly unless you get them big Euro fines.

Today's post was broght to you by the captchka 'losses'

Hopelessly Lost

[wbren]

Google's suppression of a rival search engine is prohibited by antitrust laws.

If you really need to use a search engine to find another search engine, I don't think you'll ever find what you're looking for.

It's not the same...

[mlow82]

Irrelevance does not equal suppression of first amendment rights. If it did, then I would have been gagged years ago.

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Re:I suppose that the outcome

[Millenniumman]

KinderStart should have to pay everything for this suit. They also need have the words "Google's search engine is Google's to do with what they like." branded into their foreheads.