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.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
FTC Ponders Google Antitrust Move
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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