[governance] European Commission on Google Investigation Was Google Survives US FTC Probe #FTC #EC #Google #competition

Fri Jan 11 02:54:12 EST 2013

Hi,

It has been reported through Tech Crunch and the Financial Times that
Google still may be diverting traffic and abusing the dominant market
position and whilst it got a slap on the wrist by the FTC (as reported by
the Financial Times) and FTC link was furnished in an earlier post, it
seems that the EC will not back down.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/report-european-commission-may-force-google-to-change-how-it-presents-its-search-results/

Interesting evolution taking place as far as service providers go in the
global net and interesting (not surprising) divergent applications by two
of the world's powerful regulators for antitrust and competition.

Kind Regards,
Sala

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Angela Daly <angelacdaly at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have any insider knowledge on this but Google and competition
> law is forming one chapter of my PhD thesis which should be finished
> soon!
>
> Angela
>
> On 10 January 2013 23:22, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
> <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > On 18th December, 2012 the Vice President of the European Commission
> > responsible for Competition Policy met with Google's Executive Chairman
> Eric
> > Schmidt in relation to coming into an Agreement based on Article 9 of
> the EU
> > Anti Trust Regulation. You can see the Press Release here:
> >
> >
> http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-12-967_en.htm#PR_metaPressRelease_bottom
> >
> > The concerns are in relation to the competition concerns raised by the EC
> > and they include:-
> >
> > the way in which Google's vertical search services are displayed within
> > general search results as compared to services of competitors;
> >
> >  the way Google may use and display third party content on its vertical
> > search services;
> >
> >  exclusivity agreements for the delivery of Google search advertisements
> on
> > other websites; and
> >
> >  restrictions in the portability of AdWords advertising campaigns.
> >
> > To see the Press Release, visit:
> >
> http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-12-967_en.htm#PR_metaPressRelease_bottom
> >
> > It will be interesting to see the detailed commitment text by Google this
> > month and I would be grateful if anyone has any knowledge about this that
> > they could share.
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Sala
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
> > <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> "The US Federal Trade Commission has announced it has closed its
> >> investigation into Google after an exhaustive 19-month review that
> covered
> >> millions of pages of documents and involved many hours of testimony.
> >>
> >> See:http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/01/google.shtm
> >>
> >> To see report by BBC, visit:
> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20899032
> >>
> >> Kind Regards,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro aka Sala
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> >> Suva
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> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Suva
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P.O. Box 17862
Suva
Fiji

Twitter: @SalanietaT
Skype:Salanieta.Tamanikaiwaimaro
Tel: +679 3544828
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