{"id":2025,"date":"2015-10-01T01:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T06:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2015-09-19T08:16:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T13:16:38","slug":"google-search-results-and-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/10\/google-search-results-and-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Results and Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google is often sued for its free search results. I am missing something here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/08\/31\/indias-antitrust-commission-accuses-google-of-rigging-its-search-results\/?ncid=rss\">India is investigating Google search results<\/a> for antitrust violations.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t understand how any of this works. I pay nothing for Google search results. They are free advice that are often worth every penny I pay. Yes, sometimes they are worthless.<\/p>\n<p>So, how can I, how can anyone, complain? There must be something that I am missing here.<\/p>\n<p>I do read that some countries have laws about companies that have a &#8220;dominant&#8221; position in an industry. I guess Google search qualifies for that. Still, however, no one pays for it. How can a free gift be subject to regulation?<\/p>\n<p>Someone, please explain this to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Google is often sued for its free search results. I am missing something here. India is investigating Google search results for antitrust violations. I don\u2019t understand how any of this works. I pay nothing for Google search results. They are free advice that are often worth every penny I pay. Yes, sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}