I'm a little confused about what the company is alleging. Wouldn't TradeComet be selling ad space on its search engine? Are they claiming that they got put out of business because it was too expensive for them to advertise on Google? If so I'm not sure how that's exactly an anti-trust issue. I don't think you can tell Google that they have to let a competing ad network advertise on its ad network. Now if Google told its advertisers that their rates would go up if they advertised on TradeComet as well then they would definitely have a case.
That article made it sound like Google just told TradeComet that advertising their search service on Google Ads would be expensive which seems pretty reasonable to me. Perhaps I misunderstood. Judah On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting case. The question is whether Google targeted the company for > elimination by jacking up ad rates and choking it to death. I think they > might actually have a case. Nevertheless, it will be fascinating to see how > it unfolds. > > http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5f7d1fd104998e17bf08b44d0a3576df.591&show_article=1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:289111 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
