{"id":746539,"date":"2013-04-15T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=438881"},"modified":"2013-04-15T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:10:03","slug":"eu-reportedly-accepts-googles-settlement-agreement-rivals-still-arent-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/746539","title":{"rendered":"EU reportedly accepts Google\u2019s settlement agreement, rivals still aren\u2019t happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/eu-reportedly-accepts-googles-settlement-agreement-rivals-still-arent-happy-438881\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"422\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/googledoodlebastilleday-e1343824018310.jpg?w=650&#038;h=422&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C422\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"EU reportedly accepts Google&#039;s settlement agreement, rivals still aren&#039;t happy\" title=\"Google\" \/><\/a><\/center>European antitrust regulators are said to have accepted <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google's<\/a> settlement terms following a two-year antitrust investigation into the company's search and advertising practices. The European Union launched an investigation after several companies alleged that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2010\/11\/30\/eu-to-investigate-google-for-anticompetitive-search-practices\/\">Google was promoting its own services ahead of the competition<\/a>. The company recently <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/google-antirust-settlement-offer-433264\/\">proposed a deal that would have it\u00a0specifically\u00a0label its own properties<\/a>\u00a0within its search results and also display\u00a0links from rival search engines in certain situations.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/15\/technology\/google-and-europe-reach-deal-on-search-results.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=1&amp;\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a> that regulators have accepted Google's settlement offer, and the deal\u00a0won\u2019t require the company to change its search algorithm. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/eu-reportedly-accepts-googles-settlement-agreement-rivals-still-arent-happy-438881\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/mCFnASqiFFs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European antitrust regulators are said to have accepted Google&#8217;s settlement terms following a two-year antitrust investigation into the company&#8217;s search and advertising practices. The European Union launched an investigation after several companies alleged that Google was promoting its own services ahead of the competition. The company recently proposed a deal that would have it\u00a0specifically\u00a0label its [&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-746539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38cX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746539","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=746539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}