Google 'illegally took content from Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor,' report finds
- Google search practices investigation creates at least the appearance that politics, and not merits, drove the FTC’s ultimate conclusion.”
- America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously to end its investigation into Google in early 2013 after extracting concessions from the Silicon Valley Company.
- The findings, contained in a report produced in 2012 by FTC staff to advise commissioners before their final decision on the case, claim Google also caused “harm to many vertical competitors”.
- Inits 2013 settlement, the FTC ruled against Google on scraping. Rivals can now opt out of having their content lifted, without fear of being demoted in the search rankings.
Google manipulated its search results to promote its own services over those of rival websites in ways that led to “real harm to consumers”, a previously unpublished report by American regulators has concluded. But documents accidentally handed to the Wall Street Journal show the FTC’s own investigators claim Google’s “conduct has resulted – and will result – in real harm to consumers and to innovation in the on-line search and advertising markets”.
In my opinion I think that Google being a massive cooperate business shouldn't have taken data and used it in this way to make their business more profitable. Manipulating the search criteria is not ethical and people may question Google as a business of being bias at presenting search results.
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