Google hits back against anti-trust complaints2010-09-06 10:05 by DanielaTags: Google, Microsoft
Google is fighting back against an anti-trust inquiry ordered by Texas' attorney general, saying that some of the companies making complaints have links to Microsoft. The review centers on whether Google's closely-guarded algorithm for generating search results is genuinely impartial, or whether it's manipulated to hamper competition. But Google says it's confident that it can demonstrate that it acts in the best interests of its users. "The important thing to remember is that we built Google to provide the most useful, relevant search results and ads for users. In other words, our focus is on users, not websites," says deputy general counsel Don Harrison. "Given that not every website can be at the top of the results, or even appear on the first page of our results, it’s unsurprising that some less relevant, lower quality websites will be unhappy with their ranking." Read more -here-
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