FTC report recommended suing Google for anti-competitive practices
- Google for violating antitrust rules before the agency settled its investigation in 2013
- The FTC settled its multi-year investigation of Google in 2013
- Google had manipulated its search results to hurt rivals.
- Speculation about potential consumer and competitor harm turned out to be entirely wrong
- 19-month review, covering 9 million pages of documents and many hours of testimony, the FTC staff and all five commissioner agreed that there was no need to take action
Key staff members at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) were in favour of suing Google for violating antitrust rules before the agency settled its investigation in 2013, according to a confidential report cited by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The report by the staff of the FTC’s competition bureau argued that the owner of the world’s biggest search engine illegally took information from rival websites to improve its own results and placed restrictions on websites and advertisers. The report recommended suing Google for several of its business practices. The FTC settled its multi-year investigation of Google in 2013, concluding that the company had not manipulated its search results to hurt rivals.
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