Google escapes an antitrust suit in the U.S.
The U.S. government will, according to media reports, no effort competition complaint against Google. After some voluntary concessions of the Internet group could the ongoing investigation for about two years to be set later this week, the Wall Street Journal. The most serious accusation of competitors, Google has penalized them in the search results in favor of their own services, be off the table, wrote the New York Times.
Was one of the concessions that Google will rely less on restaurant reviews and travel stories from other web sites and facilitate the exchange of advertising campaigns to other search engines, reported the website Politico and the New York Times. In addition, the Internet company will not enter into exclusive deals only for the use of its search engine to websites more. Official figures were not there.
Most recently, Google CEO Larry Page, media reports had not personally in the negotiations with the U.S. competition watchdogs. According to earlier information, the head of the FTC, Jon Leibowitz, Google had indeed threatened with a lawsuit and competitive concessions demanded. However, there has been considerable concern in the authority with regard to the prospects of success of such an action.
Google has. In the U.S. with a market share of approximately 67 percent of a dominant position in the search engine business A lawsuit against Google in the U.S. would be the biggest competition case in the IT industry since the actions of the U.S. government against Microsoft in the 90s.
Should the FTC actually decide against a lawsuit, for the Google antitrust issue was not conclusive from the table. The Internet company is in fact made in Europe by the European Commission in a competitive examination under the microscope. In Europe, the market share of Google is even higher than in the U.S.. In Germany, even about 95 percent of all search queries on Google are served.
As part of the agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission monitors Google should probably change his handling of the patents that belong to the basis of technical standards. Here Google will inevitably have to sign an undertaking, it said. On examination it is about the allegation that Google competitors withheld licensing of such patents from the arsenal of the acquired phone manufacturer Motorola and have used in court against its competitors. Google will have to commit themselves to award licenses for the standard patents on fair terms - what is already common in the industry.
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