Tag: Search Engines
The Open Display Advertising Ecosystem: Competition Concerns and Policy Interventions
This paper investigates Google’s potentially anticompetitive practices, such as self-preferencing, discrimination against rivals, and leveraging its dominance in the ad tech industry, which, as...
A Commercial Advertising Revolution: From Yellow Pages to Search Engines
Over the last three decades, the search process for commercial information has changed fundamentally. The move from yellow pages to search engines has been...
Algorithmic Search and Recommender Systems in the Digital Services Act
It is impossible to imagine digital services without algorithmic search and recommender systems. They have the important function of pre-sorting the flood of information...
Advances in Behavioral Economics and Responsible Competition Leadership: Tackling Searchplace Discrimination
The digital millennium leveraged the World Wide Web into a powerful information source. Online internet searchplaces guide human everyday decisions. The strategic placement of...
Competition, Defaults, and Antitrust Remedies in Digital Search
The rapid growth in digital platforms and information technology are greatly affecting how consumers discover and purchase products, making online markets the most attractive...
Gatekeepers’ Tollbooths for Market Access: How to Safeguard Unbiased Intermediation
Gatekeepers may seek to maximize revenues by replacing any unbiased, purely relevance-based intermediation of business users with a biased, payment-based intermediation. To this end,...
Mr. Watson, Come Here. I Want To See You: A Message...
The “legacy” communications industries — plain old telephone service, fixed and mobile broadband access, cable and satellite video distribution — afford two useful teachings...
The Google Complaint: A Step Backward for Antitrust Policy
By Jay Ezrielev (Elevecon)1
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and eleven states filed their Complaint against Google, accusing the company of anticompetitive conduct to...
Online Search Competition and the Risk of Unintended Consequences of Data...
Mandatory access to digital platforms’ data is one of the remedies proposed to address potential failures in digital markets. In addition to the high...
Ten Things To Know About The ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry
August 2019
CPI Oceania Column edited by Sam Sadden (CPI) presents:
Ten Things To Know About The ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry By Prof. Caron Beaton-Wells (University...
