Google Faces The Big Question Of Whether Success Is Illegal

Jun. 24 2011

By DANIEL FISHER

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There was an interesting guest seated at the Google table at the American Antitrust Institute meeting in Washington yesterday, an attendee tells us: Ralph Nader.  What’s the old saying about keeping your enemies close?
The search-engine giant may need all the friends it can get as it battles state and federal antitrust investigations. (It confirmed a Federal Trade Commission probe today, saying “It’s still unclear exactly what the FTC’s concerns are.”) Like Microsoft, AT&T, IBM and Standard Oil before it, Google has obtained such dominance over the business of finding information and selling ads on the Internet that it has drawn the attention of regulators who worry it might be stifling competition.

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