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Google Chairman To Testify At Antitrust Hearing

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-the-congressional-monopoly? dept.

bonch writes "Following a threat of subpoena, Google chairman Eric Schmidt will be testifying at a Senate antitrust subcommittee in September. Google has denied acting anticompetitively and cites its success as the cause of the increased scrutiny. The Federal Trade Commission and European Commission have both launched antitrust investigations into the company, and the Justice Department is also conducting a criminal probe into their acceptance of ads from rogue web pharmacies, an investigation Google has set aside $500 million to settle."

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  1. Re:why do people still use google, given tracking? by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Given that they track EVERYTHING you do, and there are other competing search engines which do not do that, why would anyone use google any more?

    Why would I care if they track my searches? Will they e-mail porn searches to my parents? Because that would be rather awkward, but otherwise it doesn't matter.

    There are search engines that don't track me, have equal or better methods of keeping junk from polluting the top hits, don't actually track me, don't have intrusive ads, and scout's honor don't really track me? Well then, I'll use them if I have any reason to.