UK lawsuit against Google delayed by EU antitrust investigation A lawsuit against Google over alleged search manipulation has been adjourned, after a judge ruled it was "inappropriate" to hold the trial while the European Commission was pursuing its anti-trust case. Court News UK is reporting that a High Court trial "between Infederation, the operator of Foundem.co.uk, and Google, has been …
"Let these whiners build their own web sites - it's called free enterprise."
That's exactly what these "whiners" did. Then Google started offering a competing service and the claim is that Google artificially moved their own comparison service up the rankings.
Think of it as ITV or Sky selling their own brand of Cola then all other Cola makers suddenly find all the prime advertising spots have already been "sold" to ITV Cola or Sky Cola.
But... On the other hand, if I am searching for a product, I generally don't want my search results filled up with other search results, Google's or somebody else's. That really annoys me with Google.
If I search for "Jabra PRO 930 configuration", I don't want 3 pages of search sites and price comparison sites. Google, if I am searching for answers to configuration problems, then I have probably already bought the damned thing and I don't need to know how much it costs!
If I am looking for prices, I'll go to a price comparison search site, if I am looking for information about a product, then I'll go to Google (or more often lately Bing, because their results have been more relevant, who'd a thunk it?), so I don't want a single price comparison result, including Google's own.
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