No doubt that Google decision to acquire Zagat gives its local business strategy a nice boost.
But it’s not without some tension. Google, which likes to think of itself as the great organizer of the world’s information, is increasingly owning important chunks of it. And that raises questions about whether the company will give the information it owns preferential treatment over information owned by others.
“This is exactly why Google is on the hot seat for antitrust,” said Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court, an activist and frequent thorn in Google’s side. “This is when the search engine becomes the find engine.”
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