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Yes, as you might recall Google was just under investigation by the DOJ and FTC for the last 2 years for potential anti-trust violations(Google recently settled this matter). Generally Google was accused of using its search power to gain an edge of market rivals.

An example of the type of alleged behavior, say you were in the coupon business and you bought ads on Google it would have cost "x", but Google used its knowledge of search and saw coupons was big business so Google created Google Offers and began buying its own ads effectively driving up the cost of your ads to "1000x".

So maybe your right, can anyone say Anti-Trust Act is used at all if some companies can set aside $500 million to make anti-trust investigations disappear? (Google is publicly traded so the $500 million set aside to settle this investigation is public record with FTC).



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