{"id":12582,"date":"2011-06-24T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=12582"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T12:01:41","slug":"ftc-to-investigate-google-antitrust-claims-12582","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ftc-to-investigate-google-antitrust-claims-12582\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC to investigate Google Antitrust claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12583\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/google_unfair_antitrust_practices_nationalturk_1234.jpg\" alt=\"FTC to investigate Google Antitrust claims \" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/google_unfair_antitrust_practices_nationalturk_1234.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/google_unfair_antitrust_practices_nationalturk_1234-280x210.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google : I search the way i like<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Google is likely to confront with\u00a0subpoenas\u00a0from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over anti-trust concerns and unfair practices.<\/h1>\n<p>Unlike previous anti-trust investigations Google faced with, which were related to acquisitions and not wide ranged, this investigation will be broad in scope and will relate directly to search advertising.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC is concerned that Google may be manipulating search results to give unfair prominence to its own sites, such as YouTube or Google Maps. Google Search engine builds up by far the greatest proportion of Google&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<p>Google has strenuously denied this.<\/p>\n<h2>The FTC to issue subpoeanas to Google Antitrust claims in few days<\/h2>\n<p>The news has been welcomed by Fairsearch.org, an umbrella group for companies including Expedia, Travelocity and Microsoft which have objected to Google&#8217;s perceived market dominance.<\/p>\n<h3>Google &#8216;s unfair competition lead to downsize of other companies<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The result of Google\u2019s unfair competition and practices is to curb innovation and investment in new technologies by other companies,&#8221; it says in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These anti-competitive practices include scraping and using other companies\u2019 content without their permission, deceptive display of search results, manipulation of search results to favor Google\u2019s products, and the acquisition of competitive threats to Google\u2019s dominance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google is already under investigation by the European Commission over similar concerns of unfair competition and practices and antitrust claims.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is likely to confront with subpoenas from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over anti-trust concerns and unfair practices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,30,80,68,63,17,118,34,37,14],"tags":[16131],"class_list":["post-12582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-america","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-latin-america","category-middle-east","category-world","tag-google-ftc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}