Google Inc., the subject of antitrust probes in the U.S. and Europe… Regardless of the relevance of ShopCity’s websites to a user’s query, “Google placed its own results, keyed to a map, at the top of the results,”
While ShopCity was being ranked lower, Google forged agreements with businesses to build up Google Places, its own local-business website, Reback said.
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