Italian antagonism authorities said Thursday that they were investigating Google, afterward complaints from publishers that the aggregation was abusing its ascendant position on the Internet to abjure them a fair allotment of online announcement revenue.Carlo Malinconico, admiral of the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers, said the accumulation had complained to the antitrust ascendancy about a “lack of transparency” in Google’s chase agent and Google Account service, which compiles blurbs of account belief on the Web and provides links to them.Because Google does not acknowledge the belief for baronial account accessories or chase results, he said, newspapers are clumsy to hone their agreeable to try to acquire added acquirement from online advertising. Ad acquirement on the Web is anon proportional to the admeasurement of the audience, which is heavily afflicted by chase or Google Account rankings.Publishers accommodate abundant of the agreeable on the Internet, but they get about annihilation for it,” he said.This is not fair, in our opinion. Our activity is we lose added than we gain.
