Google Under Investigation

The European Commission will investigate suspected bias search engine results of Google, after complaints from its competitors because they discriminated against him
The European Commission began an investigation of Google's search engine on suspicion of abusing company senior status. Google search engine competitors directly or indirectly (such as legal search engine ejustice.fr) complained that Google was "punishing" the competitors displaying its search results. Google denies the accusations and declares that cooperate with the investigation. In addition to the European Commission, conducted a similar investigation against Google in Texas, where a similar complaint filed by Foundem price comparison engine, claiming that Google's algorithm removes legitimate results. Complainants against Google talk about the unfair treatment of their services location expressed their sites search engine results. They argue that when Google has a similar competing service - it takes precedence over the others. Try to determine if the investigation method of Google's results ranking pushes down the results of other companies, especially those that offer different search services. "Google takes advantage of its dominance in search in ways that put innovation and competitiveness", says the engine Foundem. Google, for its part, claims to have reasons why these sites get a low rating, such that Foundem copies of which 79% of its site to other sites, which explicitly defines Chmanmich Google ranking. Commission will examine further Google's conduct with advertisers, given the suspicion that society imposes on them and prevents them exclusivity obligations to place advertisements on their sites of its competitors. "Google's involvement with the competition authorities was inevitable," writes Tim Weber, business editor of the BBC website. "When you're big like Google - is expected to step on toes, even if you are moving cautiously. This case is problematic, because the Commission will need to look closely at the algorithm, which is often a strange thing - a thing that can make or break it."