Patricio Robles says, “In 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ended its investigation into Google, but new documents reveal that FTC staffers believed the company engaged in behavior that hurt consumers and advertisers.

The outcome of the investigation saw Google make some changes and the agency’s commissioners decided not to sue the world’s largest search engine in what likely would have been the largest antitrust since the United States government sued Microsoft in the late 1990s.

At the time, Google not surprisingly hailed the FTC’s decision as evidence that the company had never been a negative force for consumers or its advertiser customers. But last week, documents from the FTC’s investigation were inadvertently released as part of a Freedom of Information Act request and they paint a different picture of Google”.

Google harmed ‘innovation in online search and ad markets’: FTC

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