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"paying Murdoch not to index his sites on Google is bordering on antitrust" The Sherman Antitrust Act doesn't really apply here, as I understand it. Antitrust
by qeorge 17y ago
"paying Murdoch not to index his sites on Google is bordering on antitrust"
The Sherman Antitrust Act doesn't really apply here, as I understand it. Antitrust is when a company uses its dominant market position to make competition impossible.
"While moving your price down into the negatives may be legitimate price competition"
That's actually a lot more likely to be deemed antitrust.
- selven 17y ago"The Sherman Antitrust Act doesn't really apply here, as I understand it. Antitrust is when a company uses its dominant market position to make competition impossible." I was thinking of the Microsoft antitrust trials where, IIRC, Microsoft was criticized pretty hard for its licensing scheme which made OEMs pay MS for every computer, not just those with Windows, if they wanted to pay less than the massive consumer per-license price. This is pretty similar, although Bing is the one trying to crawl into the market rather than stay in.