{"id":535964,"date":"2010-04-20T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004777"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:44:53","slug":"should-google-be-broken-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535964","title":{"rendered":"Should Google Be Broken Apart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/042010-004-google-broken-up-thumb-300x125-39521.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>The consumer group Consumer Watchdog is planning to ask the Justice Department to &#8220;launch an antitrust action against the search giant and seek remedies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/techchron\/detail?&#038;entry_id=61723\">including a possible break up<\/a>,&#8221; reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The group will host a press conference in Washington, D.C. tomorrow where it will argue that there&#8217;s enough evidence to warrant antitrust action from the feds.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We, as an organization, have concluded that there&#8217;s enough evidence on the table to warrant this, to go beyond the reactive steps that the regulatory agencies have followed up until now,&#8221; said John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The paper points out that the Justice Department doesn&#8217;t have to do anything just because of what a consumer group says. On the other hand, this call for action is coming on the heels of other issues, like Google&#8217;s plan to buy AdMob, its ongoing battle with publishers and authors over Google Books, and some trouble in the EU over whether it ranks competitors fairly in searches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/techchron\/detail?&#038;entry_id=61723\">&#8220;Consumer group to call for Google break up&#8221;<\/a> [SFGate]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consumer group Consumer Watchdog is planning to ask the Justice Department to &#8220;launch an antitrust action against the search giant and seek remedies including a possible break up,&#8221; reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The group will host a press conference in Washington, D.C. tomorrow where it will argue that there&#8217;s enough evidence to warrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}