OpenStack 04/17/2015 (p.m.)

• News – Antitrust - Competition - European Commission

  The more interesting issue to me is the accusation that Google violates antitrust law by boosting its comparison shopping search results in its search results, unfairly disadvantaging competing shopping services and not delivering best results to users. What's interesting to me is that the Commission is attempting to portray general search as a separate market from comparison shopping search, accusing Google of attempting to leverage its general search monopoly into the separate comoparison shopping search market. At first blush, Iim not convinced that these are or should be regarded as separable markets. But the ramifications are enormous. If that is a separate market, then arguably so is Google's book search, its Google Scholar search, its definition search, its site search, etc. It isn't clear to me how one might draw a defensible line taht does not also sweep in every new search feature  as a separate market.   

  Tags: antitrust, Google, European Commission, DG, Competition, Android, comarison-shopping-search

  • - By Paul Merrell

  • Google inquiries

    • Commission accuses Google of systematically favouring own shopping comparison service
    • Infographic: Google might be favouring 'Google Shopping' when displaying general search results
  • • Antitrust: Commission sends Statement of Objections to Google on comparison shopping service; opens separate formal investigation on Android
      Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:00:00 GMT
      
    • Antitrust: Commission opens formal investigation against Google in relation to Android mobile operating system
      Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:00:00 GMT
      
    • Antitrust: Commission sends Statement of Objections to Google on comparison shopping service
      Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:00:00 GMT
      
    • Statement by Commissioner Vestager on antitrust decisions concerning Google
      Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:39:00 GMT

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