{"id":5907,"date":"2011-12-24T20:09:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T20:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2011-12-24T20:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T20:09:37","slug":"can-you-simply-avoid-anti-trust-issues-by-paying-a-competitor-to-stay-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/can-you-simply-avoid-anti-trust-issues-by-paying-a-competitor-to-stay-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you simply avoid anti-trust issues by paying a competitor to stay in business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox&#8217;s sale of their search box, purchased by <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20111222\/google-will-pay-mozilla-almost-300m-per-year-in-search-deal-besting-microsoft-and-yahoo\/\">Google for three years and one billion dollars<\/a> (give or take) has to be driven by something, especially as it&#8217;s three times what they were paying before. They&#8217;ve left behind &#8220;do no evil&#8221; so until I read otherwise, <a href=\"http:\/\/parislemon.com\/post\/14695710791\/pay-to-stay\">I&#8217;ll go with MG Siegler&#8217;s answer<\/a> that they&#8217;re ensuring Firefox doesn&#8217;t damage their business by (a) going to Bing, or (b) going away and leaving Chrome as the dominant web browser&#8230; and Google open to Anti-Trust issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox&#8217;s sale of their search box, purchased by Google for three years and one billion dollars (give or take) has to be driven by something, especially as it&#8217;s three times what they were paying before. They&#8217;ve left behind &#8220;do no evil&#8221; so until I read otherwise, I&#8217;ll go with MG Siegler&#8217;s answer that they&#8217;re ensuring Firefox doesn&#8217;t damage their business by (a) going to Bing, or (b) going away and leaving Chrome as the dominant web browser&#8230; and Google open to Anti-Trust issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,52],"tags":[3448,2311,1491,355,103],"class_list":["post-5907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-web-2point0","tag-anti-trust","tag-bing","tag-chrome","tag-firefox","tag-google"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1xh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}