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Behind Google's Antitrust Escape
- jfb 14y agoMuch more interesting and important was the FRAND settlement wrt the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio.
- kjhughes 14y agoPerhaps, but besides Google agreeing to provide reasonable access to those Motorola wireless patents that are standards based, other highlights include: 1. The FTC found little or no evidence of search bias toward Google's own products; 2. Google agreed to refrain from scraping content such as restaurant reviews; 3. Google agreed not to penalize websites in search rankings if the site opts out of Google's verticals (e.g. shopping); 4. Google agreed to give advertisers more flexible access to its AdWords platform.
- zmmmmm 14y ago> The FTC's decision also shows how anti-Google lobbying from rivals like Microsoft Corp. MSFT -1.87% had little effect. They managed to initiate and sustain an 18 month FTC investigation into someone who did nothing wrong, generating a mountain of FUD and anti-PR along the way. It sounds to me like their lobbying had a pretty big effect.