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FTC sues 1-800 Contacts over reciprocal, “anti-competitive” PPC bidding agreements

Posted on: August 9, 2016 by in SEO
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued 1-800 Contacts for allegedly pursuing “anticompetitive agreements with rival online contact lens sellers that suppress competition in certain online search advertising auctions.” According to the FTC: 1-800 Contacts entered into bidding agreements with at least 14 competing online contact lens retailers that eliminate competition in auctions to place advertisements on the search results page generated by online search engines such as Google Continue Reading ...

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Report: EU responding to Google antitrust search-quality defense with new objections

Posted on: July 11, 2016 by in SEO
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According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, regulators at the European Commission (EC) are preparing a “supplementary statement of objections” in the existing shopping search antitrust matter. The EC filed the original “statement of objections” (formal antitrust charges) regarding Google’s alleged abuse of market power in early 2015. While the EC focused exclusively on shopping search in the original charges, it is widely expected that shopping is a kind of template for other Continue Reading ...

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