FairSearch’s allegations are full of exaggerations

October 12, 2011 | Online Travel

FairSearch has sent a white paper outlining its anti-trust concerns about Google to the 50 state attorneys general in the US. According to Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan, the reports are full of exaggerations, half-truths and mistakes, designed solely to target Google no matter what it takes.

Reviewing the report is frustrating, concludes Danny Sullivan There are serious industry-wide issues about how consumers interact with search engines. There are also serious concerns about what rights publishers should have in regards search engines. These, among others, deserve serious attention. These are also rarely Google-specific issues.

But reports like these, which are full of exaggerations, half-truths and mistakes rob from that attention. This report, as well as FairSearch overall, seems designed solely to target Google no matter what it takes, no matter what tall tales need to be told.

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Download the report "Google's transformation from gateway to gatekeeper: How Google's exclusionary and anticompetitive conduct restricts innovation and deceices consumers" at FairSearch (PDF 2.7 MB)

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