do something similar. >> host: and now joining us on "the communicators" is antitrust attorney david balto. of he's also former policy director for the bureau of competition at the federal trade commission. mr. balto, you heard yelp's complaint against google. what's your response to that? >> guest: i think if this was a generalize bl problem, maybe there would be something worth looking at. but, you know, i think google has greatly enhanced the opportunities for yelp. yelp gets a tremendous amount of business by being on google, and i think there is not some kind of significant evidence that google is disadvantaging people in the way that yelp suggested. >> host: as a former policy director of the bureau of competition for the ftc during the clinton administration, do you think that google warrants an ftc/senate investigation? >> guest: i think it's always worthwhile when problematic conduct's been raised for enforcement agencies to take a look at what's going on, and that's what the ftc's decide what to do. um, but when you look at google's conduct, um, overall, they have the consumer in

coming up, david balto. but first, i want to show you this from the hearing this week. jeremy stoppelman is the chairman of yelp, and he testified at this hearing after eric schmidt. he talked about how google used this product and his viewpoint on that, and then we will hear from eric schmidt, his view on yelp as well. >> google forces review web sites to provide their content for free to benefit googles on competing products, not consumers. google then gives its own product or grindle treatment in google search results. google first began taking our content without permission a year ago, despite public and private protests. google gave the ultimatum that only a monopoly can give. in order to appear in web search, you must allow us to use your content to compete against you. as everyone in this room knows, not being in google is equivalent to not existing on the internet. we had no choice. >> questionable practices remain. websites it in google search results now take a back seat to google's on competing products. this is accomplished by calling special attention to go

coming up in just a minute, former ftc bureau competition policy director david balto. but first, i want to show you this from the hearing this week. jeremy is the president or chair of the yelp, an act and he testified as well, not with eric schmidt but after eric schmidt, and he talked about how googled used its product and his viewpoint on that and then we will hear from jeremy and we will hear from eric schmidt, his view on yelp as well and then we will be back with david balto. >> google's web sites provide their content for free to benefit google's own competing product, not consumers. google then gives its own product preferential treatment in the google search results. the first began taking the content without permission and year ago. despite public and private protest, google gave the ultimatum that only a monopolist can give. in order to appear in web search you must allow us to use your content and compete against you. as everyone in this room knows, not being in google is equivalent to notte existing on the internet. we have no choice. questionable practice

. >> host: david balto, you were around when microsoft was in the antitrust hot seat. is there a comparison to see between these two sets of hearings? >> guest: yeah, there's no greater comparison between that and myself and matt damon. so the -- look, microsoft, first of all, microsoft charged consumers excessive amounts of money. i don't know about the two of you, but i've never gotten a bill from google. second, microsoft lost -- if you wanted to go and switch from their operating system, you had to go buy another operating system, try to install it, and microsoft created incompatibilities so it was difficult to install. you know, microsoft put chains around computer manufacturers to make it difficult for them to go and offer, um, other kinds of operating systems. you know, to paraphrase lloyd benson, you know, i know monopolists, i've sued monopolists, but google is no monopolist. >> host: but wasn't that not's right as a entrepreneurial company to develop their own system? >> guest: they simply went too far. the develop was, of course, perfectly fine. but in denyi

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