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Google's Anti-competitive and Unfair Practices in Digital Leisure Markets

Chirita, Anca Daniela

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The purpose of this article is to reflect on the critical use of commitments in the Google case and to analyse and review the matrix of facts that have been highlighted in the academic and practitioner literature. Therefore, the core areas of reflection in this contribution are: relevant markets; barriers to entry; network and lock-in effects; dominance; and, potential anticompetitive, as well as unfair practices as regards commercial advertisements. The analysis of the online search-engine market is complemented by the comparative insights offered by the US class action against Google’s Android mobile applications. In the EU, a similar trend is noticeable in the complaining tone of Google’s competitors. When this is coupled with the transitional period of the mandate of the newly appointed Commissioner for Competition and the political sensitivity over the potential to misuse search-engine users’ personal data to serve commercial purposes, such as boosting its advertising revenues, the giant Google swims in uncertain waters.

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Chirita, A. D. (2015). Google's Anti-competitive and Unfair Practices in Digital Leisure Markets. Competition law review, 11(1), 109-131

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 1, 2015
Online Publication Date Jul 1, 2015
Publication Date Jul 1, 2015
Deposit Date Jun 23, 2014
Publicly Available Date Oct 21, 2014
Journal Competition Law Review
Electronic ISSN 1745-638X
Publisher Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 11
Issue 1
Pages 109-131
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1449702
Publisher URL http://clasf.org/browse-the-complrev/
Related Public URLs http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/files/program-xxiii-clasf-madrid.pdf

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