Google Public Policy Blog: What folks are saying about the FTC’s review

What folks are saying about the FTC’s review

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy Communicationsannouncedwrote“...the notion of limiting or regulating what Google can show on its [search results pages] is a bad idea. Antitrust law is not supposed to protect companies from competitors but protect the marketplace in general and consumers in particular. Right now there’s no evidence that Google has harmed consumers. And the booming startup market suggests that innovation hasn’t been adversely affected by Google’s rise.”writes“Our position then, as it is now, is that there is no antitrust case in paid search due to the way pricing is set in the market for paid search keywords. Google acts as market facilitator, not market enforcer. [...] [Google is] quite transparent when it comes to how they determine Quality Score, and advertisers who do not benefit from this understanding either have not put in the work, or are simply unhappy with the result (they are bidding on irrelevant keywords, which hurts quality score, which raises price – those are the publicized rules of the auction – play or don’t play).”wrote in Huffington Post“The proponents of an antitrust investigation of Googles suggest Google is inhibiting competition by setting up barriers harming consumers. But a close examination of Google's entry into multiple consumer markets illustrates the opposite – that where Google competes, consumers benefit.”wrote in Forbes“While the FTC may know things we don't, there is thus far no evidence in the public domain that Google is guilty of violations similar to those of which Microsoft was convicted a dozen years ago. [...] Google's market position was earned precisely because it found a way of ranking search results that is more useful for consumers, and it will quickly lose that position if someone can find an even better ranking algorithm.”

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AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 6:21 PM
hello

new developments

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/webmasters/thread?tid=64041c61612553cb&hl=hu&fid=64041c61612553cb0004a6dfd3636645
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Scott ClelandJune 30, 2011 at 12:25 PM
To help make the case that Google is unbiased in its approach, why not include results that explain why the FTC is investigating Google?
see this link for a FTC-Google Antitrust Primerhttp://precursorblog.com/content/ftc-google-antitrust-primer-top-ten-qa
Scott Cleland, President of Precursor LLC, (a research consultancy for Fortune 500 companies, some of which are Google competitors), Publisher of GoogleMonitor.com and Author of Search and Destroy Why you Can't Trust Google Inc.
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Mattia De BiasiJune 30, 2011 at 5:45 PM
Scott, man...you're arguing Google's post is biased towards their own perspective, and you're posting a link to your own book on the matter. Isn't that hypocritical?
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