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The article says > At issue is whether the company uses its position as the dominant search engine company to muscle out competition from specialized search se
by Brakenshire 12y ago
The article says
> At issue is whether the company uses its position as the dominant search engine company to muscle out competition from specialized search services, specifically comparison shopping sites, by prioritizing its own Google Shopping search results.
Where are you getting that the 'antitrust angle towards Google search' is a subject of the complaint?
- Goronmon 12y agoFrom the fact that it mentions Google's position as a dominant search engine company prioritizing it's own search results.
- Lazare 12y agoThe sentence you quote is referring to antitrust. The laws about using a dominant position to compete unfairly are antitrust laws. And it is pretty weird. It's really not very analogous to the old Microsoft/IE cases. (Edit: Obviously, it's an EU case, brought under different laws entirely. There's no particular reason it would or should be analogous, but it does look very odd to US eyes, just because the legal principles are so different.)
- Brakenshire 12y agoIt's talking about the use of a dominant position in search to muscle into other markets, not challenging search dominance directly.