Google is appealing both antitrust decisions.īut the Commission has another competition probe (into Google AdSense) ongoing, and continues to eye other Google product verticals with concerns. This summer the EC also found Google’s Android OS to be in breach of its competition rules, leading to further regional tweaks - in that case to licensing terms. In recent years Google has faced some major antitrust scrutiny and enforcement internationally, including in the European Union - where it has had to make changes to how it displays search results for products after a 2017 Commission decision that found it had abused its dominance in general Internet search to give itself an illegal advantage. (Though it’s not clear exactly when the domain name was transferred.) The timing of the transfer certainly looks interesting, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai only yesterday facing some competition-flavored questions from policymakers in Congress. He also made the point then that while the URL of the company Google had acquired the domain from ( On2) pointed to a Google explanation page about that acquisition, pointed “directly to Google search”. to transfer ownership and rights of the domain to DuckDuckGo.ĭDG also would not comment beyond Weinberg’s earlier statement.īut in an interview with the TNW back in 2012, Weinberg said he first enquired about trying to buy on 11/4/09 - only to be told shortly afterwards that “management” didn’t want to sell.
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