The Us Federal Trade Commission is according to a U.s. newspaper on the point for Google to sue. The marktwaakhond would like to investigate whether the search giant abuses its dominant market position.
The FTC is concerned with the preparation of a subpoena for Google, reports The Wall Street Journal. The American marktwaakhond would like to investigate whether Google’s dominant market position is abused. The New York Times know on the basis of own sources to confirm that there is a research to arrive; it was only a matter of days before there is a Mountain View, a writ of summons on the doormat. At the end of april, up popped the message that the FTC is busy with an investigation, but then it was not yet known exactly what the problem was.
According to the sources, the American newspaper the FTC wish to investigate whether Google are pages with search results to its own services to promote. Google would content from its own services in the same strict way as those of their competitors. Google integrates indeed content from its own services – like Google News, YouTube, and Places in its search results; the company calls itself ‘Universal Search’.
In Europe is also a mededingingsonderzoek to Google, which according to Netmarketshare a worldwide market share of 82,8 percent. Google has in recent years repeatedly the butt of mededigingsonderzoeken; often followed such a research, if Google, a company wanted to take over.