> basis of an unfair competition case? It is anti-competitive to kill the competition before you product launch, if you they have active plans to be in the mar

> basis of an unfair competition case? It is anti-competitive to kill the competition before you product launch, if you they have active plans to be in the market or already under product development during the same time . Clearly Google was unable to show that it wasn't the case, the onus is on them to show that they didn't even think they would ever get into this space. It would be ridiculous proposition to prove for them given that information discovery and aggregation has always been core to their search business, any competent product manager was thinking about it 5 years before at-least. It is not like they killed competition say in mobile OS space in 2005 and then decided to buy Android couple of years laters to build a competitor to Apple and got sued for that, Search and aggregation of other sites is the foundation of their business .