The investigators are also looking into whether Google’s automated advertising marketplace, AdWords, discriminates against advertisers from competing online commerce services like comparison shopping sites and consumer review Web sites.
The government is also investigating Google’s practices in the smartphone industry, inquiring if its contracts with handset makers and carriers prevent them from removing or modifying Google products, like its Android operating system or Google search. In addition, it is looking into Google’s use of smartphone patents
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But regulators, antitrust experts say, will most likely push for more sweeping commitments on Google’s corporate conduct in the future to try to ensure that the company will not use its powerful position in Internet search to give it an unfair advantage in other businesses and stifle competition, which antitrust prohibits.
chi fa il gatekeeper, puo' anche fare il contenuto ? - a Quinta 's weblogIMHO, sarebbe meglio di no. Scrissi un post molto tempo fa al riguardo.
anche
la finanza è regolamentata in modo simile modo (non con grande
successo, ma immginiamoci se non lo fosse!) con le pareti cinesi: chi fa
studi (e da le opinoini sugli investimenti, su dove andare a mettere i
tuoi quattrini) non deve comunicare con chi degli investimenti
beneficia.
ovvero chi fa gli interessi dalla domanda e chi fa gli interessi dell'offerta devono essere separati.
