Title- Google
'illegally took content from Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor,' report finds
Summary:
This article is about how Google
manipulated its search results to promote its own services over those of rival
websites in ways that led to “real harm to consumers”.
Facts/Phrases:
Ø America’s
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously to end its investigation into Google in
early 2013 after extracting concessions from the Silicon Valley Company.
Ø The
findings, contained in a report produced in 2012 by FTC staff to advise
commissioners before their final decision on the case, claim Google also caused
“harm to many vertical competitors”.
Ø In
its 2013 settlement, the FTC ruled against Google on scraping. Rivals can
now opt out of having their content lifted, without fear of being demoted in
the search rankings.
Ø Scott
Cleland, publisher of the watchdog site Google Monitor and president
of the Precursor research firm, said: “Public evidence concerning the sequence
of events surrounding the FTC’s closure of its Google search practices
investigation creates at least the appearance that politics, and not merits,
drove the FTC’s ultimate conclusion.”
Opinion:
In my opinion, i think this shows
how Google being a monolithic empire has stayed on top by manipulating the
information of its sources, in order to profit from the advertising.
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