The EU is going to lead the way in looking at Google's allegedly anti-competitive activities in regards to search and the listing of its competitor's websites. Here is a Wall St Journal article and one from All Things Digital.
Unsurprisingly, the companies launching the complaint have ties to Microsoft.
The question that occurs to me is: If Google is ranking websites fairly, how can they prove it without revealing the proprietary information behind their page rank algorithm? The Microsoft case showed how the information that comes out in these antitrust cases can cause significant damage all by itself.
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