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Microsoft Sells Ciao To LeGuide.com
Microsoft has sold shopping portal service Ciao to European online shopping guide company LeGuide.com Group. The terms of the deal was undisclosed, but Ciao was paid for entirely in cash. In other words, LeGuide.com did not have to take on debt to finance the acquisition. Ciao receives about 20.8 million unique visitors across Europe. Now LeGuide.com will receive close to 33 million unique visitors per month. [TechCrunch EU]
Categories Ciao, LeGuide.com, Microsoft Corporation
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Google Being Investigated By European Commission Over Search Penalty
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is being investigated by The European Commission as part of an anti-trust inquiry. Three companies alleged that Google’s search functions were penalizing their own businesses. The European Commission sent Google a set of questions about how their search functions work and they are also being asked how their ad business works. The three websites Foundem, Ciao, and ejustice.fr complained about Google to the Commission. Ciao is owned by Microsoft.
“Google has always used various penalty filters to remove certain sites entirely from its search results or place them so far down the rankings that they will never be found,” stated Foundem in a blog post last August. “Whereas these penalties used to be reserved for spam, or sites caught attempting to cheat Google’s algorithms, they are now increasingly targeted at perfectly legitimate vertical search and directory services.” [Telegraph via Techmeme]
Categories Ciao, ejustice.fr, European Commission, Foundem, Google, Microsoft Corporation
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