Google's Exclusive Dealing Limits Innovation and Consumer Choice
Google has maintained and expanded its dominance in search and search advertising by imposing exclusivity restrictions on its partners.
Google Manipulates Search Results to Favor its Own Content
Users expect search results to be presented in the order of their likely relevance to a query. But now, Google’s own sites compete with vertical sites, incentivizing Google to prefer those rankings, instead of simply ranking and listing the most relevant results.
Google Deceptively Displays Its Own Content at the Top of the Page
Users expect search results to be presented in order of relevance. However, Google displays many of its own pages at the top or in the middle of the results page as if they were natural search results, without clearly identifying them as Google results.
Google's Content Scraping Threatens Some of the Web's Most Popular Sites
Google scrapes the content developed by other websites and displays it on a Google page. This enables Google to earn advertising revenues and to deprive the other website of user traffic.
Google's Unfair Treatment of Advertisers Harms All Businesses
By locking in advertisers to its platform and handicapping them with a “quality score,” which can be lowered without warning and with little or no justification, Google can manipulate paid search to limit competition.