Solution, which allows Google to enter the market of online travel, comes as new CEO Larry Page updated governance structure of companies in an effort to intensify its efforts in social networking, mobile and other key businesses.
The Ministry of Justice blessed $ 700 million deal with Google ticketing software company. Google promises to license the software for five years, to continue to upgrade it and install a firewall to protect intellectual property ITA customers.
Buy ITA is part of the acquisition and hiring spree, as Google aims to provide its online services to stay on top as the Internet surfers Go Mobile and refer to services such as wildly popular Facebook.
Now, the U.S. antitrust authorities will turn to the question of whether to open formal antitrust investigation into allegations that Google, № 1 in the world of Internet search engine, manipulates search results, the source told Reuters on Friday.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Ministry of Justice is considering both investigations, but there was no decision made on which the Agency may accept it.
There were a number of complaints to the agencies - many of our competitors Google, who specialize in finding such as price comparison sites - Google, which makes them difficult to find.
Key MP criticizes Google, and remained on Friday. "We continue to explore broader questions about the validity of the search engine Google, and whether it is a preference for their products and services to the detriment of competitors," said Sen. Herb Kohl, chairman of the antitrust subcommittee of the legal committee's.
The European Commission began antitrust probe after complaints from three small companies, one of them belonging to the Corporation Microsoft Microsoft has filed a formal complaint against Google with the Commission in Brussels last month.
Microsoft said that Google damaging competition, "Wall to" content on its site YouTube, so that other search engines may not show accurate results. He also said that Google has made it difficult for the mobile phone software Microsoft, to show videos from YouTube, among other charges.
The Ministry of Justice was also aware that Google had an incentive to set up search results in favor of the business and oversees the issue, a spokesman said Justice, who requested anonymity.
"There were various complaints about bias in the search," the official said. "Thus, while we know of these complaints, we do not think they are relevant to this (ITA) of the transaction."
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