Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Regarding Google’s Search Practices
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The Federal Trade Commission has today completed a wide-ranging investigation of alleged anticompetitive conduct by Google Inc. (“Google”). We issue this Statement to explain the Commission’s unanimous decision to close the portion of its investigation relating to allegations that Google unfairly preferences its own content on the Google search results page and selectively demotes its competitors’ content from those results. Some parties refer to this alleged practice as “search bias.”
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