{"id":652217,"date":"2013-04-12T19:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=433264"},"modified":"2013-04-12T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:30:59","slug":"google-offers-to-label-its-own-properties-in-searches-to-settle-eu-antitrust-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652217","title":{"rendered":"Google offers to label its own properties in searches to settle EU antitrust case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/google-antirust-settlement-offer-433264\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/google-sign-9.jpg?w=650&amp;h=434&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Antitrust Settlement\" title=\"Google\" \/><\/a><\/center>To settle charges that it&#8217;s artificially boosting its own properties in search results, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a>\u00a0is offering to let consumers know that it&#8217;s the company behind Google Shopping.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2013\/apr\/12\/google-offers-concessions-european-commission\"><em>The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a> that Google has made a settlement offer to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/17\/google-ceo-page-interview-antitrust-regulators-criticized\/\">European antitrust officials<\/a> in which the company says it will &#8220;label results where its own properties, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/youtube\">YouTube<\/a> or Google Shopping, appear in listings when people perform searches.&#8221; <em>The Guardian<\/em> notes that this concession is unlikely to satisfy critics who claim that Google is pushing down rivals&#8217; products to promote its own services, since the offer would do nothing to change the rankings in search results. Google skated in a similar investigation in the United States when <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/13\/google-ftc-antitrust-investigation\/\">the Federal Trade Commission found it didn&#8217;t violate American antitrust law late last year<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/J1bVFU-hvz4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To settle charges that it&#8217;s artificially boosting its own properties in search results, Google\u00a0is offering to let consumers know that it&#8217;s the company behind Google Shopping.\u00a0The Guardian reports that Google has made a settlement offer to European antitrust officials in which the company says it will &#8220;label results where its own properties, such as YouTube [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652217","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\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}