Texas probes Google search rankings

Robert Clark | September 06, 2010

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The Texas Attorney General has begun a probe into Google page rank – the first by a US agency into the technology at the core of Google’s search business.

The anti-trust inquiry – one of a mounting number of probes into the tech giant - will examine the fairness of Google’s search results, the firm’s deputy general counsel Don Harrison revealed in a blog post Friday.

Harrison said the Texan AG was seeking information about three companies, including UK price comparison site Foundem, whose complaint is now under investigation by European anti-trust authorities.

Foundem was backed by ICOMP, a Microsoft-funded industry group, while the other two firms – Source Tool/Trade Comet and myTriggers – had employed former Microsoft antitrust attorneys.

Harrison said Google’s search technology aimed to satisfy “users, not websites.

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