Posts Tagged ‘Anti Trust Laws’

Google, link networks and are they above the law.

An interesting article over at Mr Naylors blogs.

The overview is Google may hypothetically, log in and create accounts in the link networks, then use the info to go after the link sites. Obviously the implications of this is that the link networks would go out of business. An “anonymous” user states some of the Terms and Conditions on the link networks which explicitly disallows people related to Google and other search engines creating accounts on these link networks.

The interesting part is that if Google, etc did this they would be breaking US anti trust laws. So will Google do this?

Then they do this:

Google gives links to those they love

Clean Doug