What an Anti-Google Antitrust Case By the FTC May Look Like

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 25, 2012 @09:45AM from the follow-the-competitors'-blueprint dept.

hessian writes "It's not certain that Google will face a federal antitrust lawsuit by year's end. But if that happens, it seems likely to follow an outline sketched by Thomas Barnett, a Washington, D.C., lawyer on the payroll of Google's competitors. Barnett laid out his arguments during a presentation here last night: Google is unfairly prioritizing its own services such as flight search over those offered by rivals such as Expedia, and it's unfairly incorporating reviews from Yelp without asking for permission. 'They systematically reinforce their dominance in search and search advertising,' Barnett said during a debate on search engines and antitrust organized by the Federalist Society. 'Google's case ought to have been brought a year or two ago.'"

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Re:Sour Grapes by miltonw · 2012-10-25 10:43 · Score: 5, Insightful

Ah, but that is not the proven fact you pretend it is. There is no proof at all that Google tweaks its results to put its own services at the top of the list. You have assumed guilt that has never been established in order to "prove" that Google is guilty.
Even companies are assumed innocent until proven guilty. That's called "justice" and if you don't like it, tough.