{"id":746196,"date":"2013-04-11T18:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T22:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=431456"},"modified":"2013-04-11T18:35:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T22:35:30","slug":"google-sued-in-u-k-for-allegedly-boosting-its-own-services-artificially-in-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/746196","title":{"rendered":"Google sued in U.K. for allegedly boosting its own services artificially in search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/11\/google-search-practices-lawsuit-u-k-431456\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/google-sign-white.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=435&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C435\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Search Practice Lawsuit\" title=\"Google\" \/><\/a><\/center>A small Internet company in the United Kingdom has filed a lawsuit against <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) for allegedly promoting its own services ahead of the competition in its search results. Streetmap, an Internet maps provider similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google-maps\">Google Maps<\/a>, claims that Google\u2019s \"cynical manipulation of search results\u201d has resulted in its products becoming \u201charder to find,\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-04-10\/google-sued-by-streetmap-in-u-k-for-anti-competitive-behavior.html\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reported<\/a>.\u00a0In addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/09\/11\/google-antitrust-ruling-brazil\/\">a similar suit that took place in Brazil last fall<\/a>, Google is currently being <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/05\/21\/europe-google-antitrust-investigation-resolution\/\">investigated by the European Union<\/a> over it controversial search practices. A Google spokesperson declined to comment, telling <em>Bloomberg<\/em> that he hasn't seen Streetmap's complaint.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/URDDtIP1GWo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small Internet company in the United Kingdom has filed a lawsuit against Google (GOOG) for allegedly promoting its own services ahead of the competition in its search results. Streetmap, an Internet maps provider similar to Google Maps, claims that Google\u2019s &#8220;cynical manipulation of search results\u201d has resulted in its products becoming \u201charder to find,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-387q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}