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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Google agrees to change the search display to license patents to competitors

Google agrees to change the search display to license patents to competitors About FTP:








Today News :  The Federal Trade Commission has completed its nearly two-year study of Google on Thursday, taking on some of the concessions that do little to resolve allegations that the company used its dominant position in the search market to support its products and hurt competitors.


Peace process, which is far from what the coalition demanded competitors, will only a few, if any visible changes in the way hundreds of millions of consumers are using the most popular search engine in the world. Consumer groups have long warned that without significant government action, Google will continue to change the view of the results of queries, travel, shopping and other services for its own and its own profits.


But an aggressive lobbying campaign failed to convince a majority of the five members of the ruling council of the FTC that Google was significantly harm consumers - unlike rival sites - and accepted an assignment to be mainly affecting the company shows snippets of content from other websites and allows marketers to more easily move the ads to compete with online services. The company has also adopted a regulation restricting its binding ability to use patents to block the products offered by competitors, mainly in the mobile market.


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