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The FTC is believed to be in the process of preparing an antitrust complaint against Google, on the grounds that it uses its dominance in the search engine market to promote its other services by altering its algorithms to boost their prominence in its ...Looking at who filed the complaints in these two cases yields a valuable lesson. In the case of the NCAA, the complaints came from the student athletes, the ones who have been deprived of choice. In the case of Google, the complaints came from competitors. These companies’ real problem, it seems, is not that customers do not have choices, but rather that customers aren’t choosing them. If Google’s competitors are right, and Google really is altering search results for its own advantage, users will soon defect on their own. The FTC would do a greater public service by protecting the interests of student athletes who have nowhere else to go.
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Entrepreneur
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Entrepreneur
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Spiegel Online
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Spiegel Online
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Equities.com
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Internet Marketing News
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Business 2 Community
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New York Times
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New York Times
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Sydney Morning Herald
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Sydney Morning Herald
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