| By Maureen O'Gara |
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| June 29, 2011 08:00 AM EDT |
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Google's been sued in Paris for anti-competitive behavior by 1plusV, a French specialty search firm that also complained to the European Commission last year and again this year about the search giant's alleged habit of blocking rivals and depriving them ad revenues by manipulating search results.
It's asking for €295 million (~$424 million).
Its beef goes back four years. It claims Google blacklisted 30 of its search engines from 2007-2010 and pushed its own services instead.
Besides the EC probe, Google is now being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for the same thing.
Google owns at least 80% of the European search market.
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara
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