Is Google Playing Fair With Groupon, et al?

An anonymous reader writes with the claim (illustrated with what seems like damning screen-shot evidence) that "Google is using Gmail's priority inbox to give special treatment to its own daily deal emails over all the rest."

Comments

Re:Excellent timing

[betterunixthanunix]

Google is already facing an inquiry from the FTC. All you need to do is pay attention to the news:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/ftc-launching-antitrust-probe-over-google-search-ad-businesses.ars

This sort of thing is not going to look very good to the FTC.