Google: Antitrust
Antitrust, data and consumer privacy will take center stage at new FTC hearings
Will they lead to a new Google investigation, more Facebook...
EU: Google shopping search reforms working
EU Commissioner Vestager gave qualified approval to the changes put in place....
Report: EU about to fine Google billions in Android antitrust case
The first antitrust fine was roughly $2.8 billion; this one could be larger....
Yelp-led group’s new video appeals to Google employees to advocate for internal change
Video makes argument that Google is doing anti-competitive things in local search...
Yelp asks Europe to take new antitrust action against Google
Complaint to European Commission applies the logic of the Shopping Search case to local search....
Europeans again raise the specter of breaking up Google
More of a bargaining position, it's extremely unlikely to actually happen....
Google’s antitrust infringement continues ‘unabated’, Google Shopping competitors tell European Commission
Four months in, 19 rivals say too little has changed....
In response to EU antitrust ruling, Google Shopping now shows ads from competing shopping engines
Comparison Shopping Engines are competing with Google for visibility in Google Shopping in the...
Spotted: Links to competing shopping engines in UK Google Shopping results
The new look is in response to the European Commission's antritrust ruling against Google, but it may not satisfy...
Google, Getty Images enter a multi-year global licensing partnership
The deal effectively ends Getty's European antitrust complaint against Google....
India’s competition regulator fines Google $21.1 million for ‘search bias’ in travel results
However, the OneBox and other search practices were cleared by the Committee....
Google EU shopping rivals complain antitrust remedies aren’t working
They're demanding more changes, saying their problems have intensified rather than improved since the EC ruling in June, 2017....
Missouri Attorney General initiates Google antitrust investigation
Focus is on consumer data collection practices and alleged "search bias."...
CSEs will compete head-on with Google Shopping in EU search results
To provide "equal treatment" in the ad auction, Google Shopping will operate as a separate business unit bidding against Comparison Shopping...
Alphabet to create separate business unit in Europe to run Google Shopping
Effort is attempt to comply with European antitrust decision; would force Google to bid against rivals in the AdWords auction as a standalone...
How the Russian search market looks now
Contributor Brendan McGonigle examines shifts in the Russian search market resulting from Google's recent move to come into compliance with...
Google proposes a new version of ‘rival links’ to remedy shopping search antitrust violation
Submission appears similar to its earlier, unsuccessful settlement proposal....
Yelp says Google violated ‘do not crawl’ provision of 2013 FTC settlement agreement
Reportedly, numerous Yelp business images were found in Google Maps. ...
Report: Google to appeal $2.7 billion EU fine
Google still required to make changes to search results during appeal process....
Top European court’s ruling might embolden US tech companies to challenge regulators
The European Court of Justice rebuked a lower court for failing to properly consider Intel's arguments in a nearly decade-old case....