Washington Post
The findings mean that the clock effectively starts ticking for Google to come up with solutions to the antitrust regulators' concerns — or else face formal charges that could result in a hefty fine. Pressure is rising on the dominant search engine as ...
EU Gives Google Several Weeks to Rectify Antitrust Concerns
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius The European Commission today offered up several ways for Google to avoid antitrust action, but it does not appear that the search giant is willing to make the commission's suggested changes just yet. Joaquín Almunia, vice president ...
EU competition chief: We'll settle with Google over antitrust
CNET
"Google has repeatedly expressed to me its willingness to discuss any concerns that the Commission might have without having to engage in adversarial proceedings," Almunia said. "This is why today I'm giving Google an opportunity to offer remedies to ...
Google has 'weeks' to ease antitrust concerns in Europe
Fox News
BRUSSELS – The European Union has given Google "a matter of weeks" to propose remedies to antitrust concerns arising from its alleged dominant position in the online search market. European antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia said that after a ...
EU Offers Google a Chance to Avoid Fines Over Four Antitrust Concerns
PCWorld
By Loek Essers, IDG-News-Service:Amsterdam-Bureau Google has "a matter of weeks" to address four antitrust issues identified by European Union antitrust regulators. If Googleaddresses these issues the case can be solved by a so-called "commitment ...
Google search becomes more 'human-like'
MSN Money
The search giant is rolling out sweeping new changes with its Knowledge Graph, which aims to deliver more intelligent answers to your queries. By TheWeek.com 5 minutes ago Not to be outdone by chief rival Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing, Google (GOOG) is ...
EU say Google may have abused its dominance, urges settlement
Los Angeles Times
By Jim Puzzanghera WASHINGTON — The top European antitrust official said Monday that an investigation has found Google Inc. may have abused its online dominance to squelch competition and offered the company a chance to settle the allegations to avoid ...
The Circuit: Google antitrust, cable WiFi, Yahoo sells much of Alibaba
Washington Post (blog)
By Hayley Tsukayama Google antitrust: European officials said Monday that they have found four areas of concern over Google's search practices, The Washington Post reported. In a letter toGoogle Chairman Eric Schmidt, antitrust officials said that it ...
Google stands accused of boosting its ad services while suppressing rival ad ...
DailyTech
Currently there are 16 complaints against Google. Stat Owl [source] and Net Market Share [source] both estimate Google to control roughly 81 percent of the searchmarket. Microsoft's Bing is thought be in second place with nearly 9 percent.
DailyTech
Can Google and Europe settle their differences?
BetaNews
By Ed Oswald Today, the European Union's Competition Commission set the stage for an antitrust showdown with Google by offering settlement ahead of four pending violations. Proposal would come from the search giant, which initial response suggests ...
BetaNews
EU Gives Google Chance To Offer Remedies In Anti-Trust Case
Wall Street Journal
By Vanessa Mock and Gabriele Steinhauser Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--Google Inc. (GOOG) was given the opportunity Monday to offer remedies in a European Union anti-trust case brought by more than a dozen companies, including Microsoft ...
EU gives Google 'weeks' on antitrust issues
USA TODAY
By RAF CASERT, AP BRUSSELS – The European Union said on Monday thatGoogle must in "a matter of weeks" outline steps it is willing to take to ease concerns about alleged abuses of its dominant position in the online searchmarket.
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EU gives Google 'weeks' to ease antitrust concerns
Fox News
Google, the world's most popular search engine, also faces a similar antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission in the United States. The EU's concerns, brought on by complaints from Google's rivals, center on how the internet giant deals ...
EU gives Google 'weeks' to settle antitrust investigation
San Jose Mercury News
Even if the world's most popular search engine offers concessions to resolve the issue, it will still be under the EU spotlight following fresh complaints over its Android mobile software, the top operating system for Internet-enabled smartphones.
Europe to Google: Stop Being Evil
Mashable
The European Commission is giving Google a “matter of weeks” to settle an ongoing antitrust case by changing several of its business practices which some say have given the company an unfair monopolistic advantage on the web. If Google refuses to ...
Google Given Weeks to Submit Remedies in EU Antitrust Probe
BusinessWeek
By Aoife White on May 21, 2012 Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) was told by the European Union's antitrust chief it has a “matter of weeks” to resolve a probe and avoid possible fines over allegations that the operator of the world's largest search engine ...
Google ordered to mend its ways fast
CNNMoney
By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech May 21, 2012: 10:37 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- In a scolding letter sent to Google on Monday, European regulators outlined their "concerns" aboutGoogle's business practices, giving the search giant "a matter of weeks" ...
EU to Google: Settle or Be Charged with Antitrust Violations
Windows IT Pro
Now, facing online advertising giant Google, the European Union (EU) is trying a different, more expedient tactic: It's offering Google the chance to settle before announcing sweeping antitrust charges against the firm. “I offer Google the possibility ...
Windows IT Pro
Europe prods Google to accept anti-trust deal, avoid Microsoft-style ordeal
GigaOM
21, 2012, 6:26am PT No Comments The European Commission today announced it had found four possible “abuses of dominance” by Google, and suggested the search giant propose a package of “remedies” in coming weeks. Europe launched a massive antitrust ...
EU Antitrust Officials Seek Remedies From Google
Adweek
In a letter to Larry Schmidt, Google's CEO, the EU lays out the results of its antitrust investigation and gives the search giant mere weeks to address four problem areas or face formal proceedings that could lead to a fine of up to 10 percent of ...
Europe offers Google settlement option in antitrust case
ZDNet (blog)
Google will have a few weeks to submit changes to its behaviour in a bid to stave off a full antitrust investigation. The Commission had received over a dozen formal complaints, including notes from Microsoft-owned search engine Ciao!, Foundem, ...
Google Given a 'Matter of Weeks' to Submit Remedies in EU Probe
Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) was told by the European Union's antitrust chief it has a “matter of weeks” to resolve a probe and avoid possible fines over allegations that the operator of the world's largest search engine discriminates against rivals.
Bloomberg
Google given “matter of weeks” to fix antitrust issues
SlashGear
Google has been the subject of an antitrust investigation in Europe since 2010, and the searchgiant may soon begin to feel the heat. The European Union's antitrust chief has told Google that solutions to the antitrust concerns should be offered in a ...
Brussels throws antitrust settlement lifeline to Google
Register
The EU's competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said this morning that he would consider "proposals of remedies" from the internet giant if it quickly addressed four areas of concern about Google allegedly stifling its rivals in the search market.
European regulators offer Google chance to settle antitrust violations
Ars Technica
by Jon Brodkin - May 21, 2012 2:15 pm UTC The European Commission today accused Googleof abusing its dominant position in the search engine market to benefit its own advertising services at the expense of competitors. But rather than launch "formal ...
Europe Says Google Has an Antitrust Problem
Courthouse News Service
The commission says its examination and subsequent investigation uncovered antitrust violations, mostly related to the way Google's search engine works. In its general searchresults, Google displays links to its own vertical search services that focus ...
Is this the next Facebook? Microsoft unveils so.cl social network
Fox News
Microsoft “We expect students to continue using products such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other existing social networks, as well as Bing, Google and other search tools,” Microsoft said. “We hope to encourage students to reimagine how our ...
Search Neutrality » The European Commission's Ultimatum to Google
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Foundem's Complaint, filed in November 2009 and updated in February 2010, was the first to document how Google systematically manipulates its ostensibly neutral search results to promote its own services while simultaneously demoting or excluding those of its competitors. We are ... Crucially, the businesses being harmed by the anti-competitive practices described in Foundem's Complaint are not Google's rival horizontal search engines such as Bing or Yahoo. They are the ...
Search Neutrality
By foundem
Foundem's Complaint, filed in November 2009 and updated in February 2010, was the first to document how Google systematically manipulates its ostensibly neutral search results to promote its own services while simultaneously demoting or excluding those of its competitors. We are ... Crucially, the businesses being harmed by the anti-competitive practices described in Foundem's Complaint are not Google's rival horizontal search engines such as Bing or Yahoo. They are the ...
Search Neutrality
U.S. Businesses Slow to Adapt to Google Penguin Changes; South ...
Press Release: As Google rolls out the new Google Penguin Search Algorithm changes, concern is beginning to set in over the lack of concern or research in the U.S. over the impact. Recent data suggest U.S. businesses are falling behind in ...
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Althouse: Google hires lawprof blogger Eugene Volokh to make the ...
By Ann Althouse
[Volokh's] argument, fundamentally, is that when Google assembles search results, it is communicating with its readers, and making selections about what to communicate. In that way, it is the same as a print newspaper that prioritizes news on ...
Althouse
How To Remove Your Social Media From Google Search
By The Huffington Post News Editors
kojoshow #TechTuesday @ 12: From Google's Knowledge Graph to iPhone's Siri, we discuss the future of search engines: http://t.co/swY80uwP · 34 minutes ago from TweetDeck .... NewGoogle Local Search Results Show Directions, Menus, Pics - Search Engine Watch (#SEW) ...
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Almunia outlines Google competition concerns | European Voice
almunia outlines google competition concerns commissioner highlights four areas of concern and calls for a 'quick resolution'.
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19 June: Google Enterprise Search & Geo Breakfast Briefing ...
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We will be presenting in partnership with Google's Enterprise Division to a select group of individuals on how Google's Enterprise Search and Google Maps technology is being used to transform the way organisations such as yours do ...
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Google Revamps Search To Help Users Find Things Faster ...
Google has redesigned it's search to help visitors find things faster. The search engineintroduced the 'knowledge graph,' which provides results based on context to a visitor. The newsearch will also have more graphical elements instead of ...
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Local Search & Mobile Usage Trends: New Google Data | Business ...
By Jeff Adelson-Yan
Google recently released new data showing the overwhelming growth of mobile usage among consumers is high across the board. Not surprisingly, consumers continue to rely on smartphones and local search for daily activities like shopping, ...
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Top Global Outlets Weigh in on Almunia's Announcement; Google
By FairSearch
Joaquín Almunia, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy, announced today that his committee has concluded the initial investigation into Google's anticompetitive practices. Google has a matter of ...
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EU competition commissioner says he'll settle antitrust investigation ...
By Élyse Betters
Alumnia further said fast-moving markets would benefit from a speedy resolution of the earmarked points by restoring competition. Meanwhile, a Google spokesperson told CNET that the search engine has “only just started to look through the ...
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Google's Knowledge Graph | Talking TMP
By jenna
Google's Knowledge Graph. Google search has just got 1000 times smarter due to the arrival of its latest feature- the 'Knowledge Graph'. This is otherwise more widely known as the semiotic web, and has been rolled out across the multiple ...
Talking TMP
When one searches for "Homer," Google gets confused. Does it refer to the cartoon character? The Greek epic poet? The fishing town in Alaska? The .
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Lumia surpasses DROID on Google search
In what could be the sign of a sea change coming in the mobile industry, Google Trends shows that "Lumia" has been requested as a search term on Google ...
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Special Report Entitled "Web Marketing After Google Panda ...
Drawing a penalty means one's listings, in Google's all important search engine, are lowered or even removed. This special Panda and Penguin report fully ...
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How to use Google's search-by-image directly through a url? : google
I'm talking about the feature that lets you search by pasting a url into the camera popup window [here](http://www.google.com/imghp). Supposedly one c...
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YouTube - Google Search Appliance - YouTube
The Google Search Appliance (GSA) brings fast, relevant search to your website or intranet, ...How to Install Your Google Search Appliance (GSA) - Part 1 of 2 ...
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The Google Search Appliance (GSA) brings fast, relevant search to your website or intranet, ...How to Install Your Google Search Appliance (GSA) - Part 1 of 2 ...
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