FTC Ponders Google Antitrust Move

The Federal Trade Commission appears to be nearing the filing of an antitrust case against Google, Reuters reports. Though some had speculated that such action might eventually be brought based on the way Google ranks search results, that might not be the case. You can watch testimony here.

Without any commentary on the possible merits of the FTC case, it might be worth noting how often regulators jump in to solve a problem that the market is just about to fix. The point is that less end user activity in search is happening, anyway, with other ways of finding things.