{"id":15027,"date":"2015-03-23T22:53:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15027"},"modified":"2015-03-23T22:53:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:53:57","slug":"the-ftcs-internal-memo-on-google-teaches-companies-a-terrible-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15027","title":{"rendered":"The FTC\u2019s internal memo on Google teaches companies a terrible lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>FTC staffers spent enormous time pouring through Google&#8217;s business practices and documents as well as interviewing executives and rivals. They came to the conclusion that Google was acting in anti-competitive ways, such as restricting advertisers&#8217; from working with rival search engines. But commissioners balked at the prospect of a lengthy and protracted legal fight, former FTC officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/03\/20\/the-ftcs-internal-memo-on-google-teaches-companies-a-terrible-lesson\/\">The FTC\u2019s internal memo on Google teaches companies a terrible lesson &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTC staffers spent enormous time pouring through Google&#8217;s business practices and documents as well as interviewing executives and rivals. They came to the conclusion that Google was acting in anti-competitive ways, such as restricting advertisers&#8217; from working with rival search &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15027\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[137,991,423,47],"class_list":["post-15027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-advertising","tag-ftc","tag-google","tag-monopolistic-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15028,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions\/15028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}