The European Commission, which suspects the Internet giant Google of manipulating the results of research conducted by the Internet, sent its first questionnaires as part of its investigation for abuse of dominant position, reports Le Figaro, Wednesday, Jan. 5. The forms were sent shortly before Christmas and has nearly a hundred questions to be answered by the big Web players such as publishers of sites, search engines and online directories, advertisers and advertising agencies, before 11 February, the paper writes."Your company have noticed sudden and significant changes in its ranking on search engines like Bing, Google or Yahoo? Have you noticed any sudden drops in the number of users sent to your services by Google and can not be explained by changes on your website? "asks Brussels for example.
OPEN END SURVEY NOVEMBER "Beyond considerations concerning the possible abuse of dominance issues underlying Brussels another charge: Google manipulated the results of his research and his platform to buy ads," in the paper concludes. The European Commission has opened at the end of November, a formal investigation following complaints from service providers online search competitors.
They accuse Google promote its own services, and penalizing their own, in its paid search results and free.
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