
FTC Investigates Google for Promoting Search Engine on Android Phones
The FTC is apparently concerned that Google may be unfairly promoting its search engine on their popular Android mobile operating system.

The FTC is apparently concerned that Google may be unfairly promoting its search engine on their popular Android mobile operating system.

It’s been compared to the huge “Heartbleed” bug that panicked the Internet last year. It could prove to be an even worse problem than Heartbleed was, because while devising and distributing fixes for that problem was hardly an easy task, it wasn’t as difficult as updating the operating system on some 950 million cell phones from various providers.

Just below Rawalpindi, Pakistan near the Soan River on Google maps, Friday Team Android discovered an image of the iconic Android “bot” urinating on an image of the iconic Apple logo.

Google thought it had agreed last year with European competition regulators that the company’s 90% dominance of Internet searches was “not an illegal business.” But new European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager sought to put Google in chains on Wednesday by accusing the company of abusing its dominance in web searches to the detriment of competitors.

Apple (AAPL: NASDAQ) may have printed the largest quarterly earnings in the history of capitalism, but the smartphone market is moving against the future of the Apple iPhone as Google’s Android operating system software gains market domination.