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Lawsuit says Google was unfair to rival site

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
15 years ago2,337 views

"A small Web site operator filed an antitrust suit against Google on Tuesday, accusing it of unfairly manipulating its advertising system to harm a potential competitor.

TradeComet.com, which operates a site called SourceTool.com, a vertical search engine for those seeking business products and services, accused Google of raising the advertising rates it charged the company after it realized that SourceTool was a potential competitor.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/technology/internet/18google.html?_r=1&ref=business

[Merged – Tony]

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