Google is a predatory monopoly, so what are we going to do about it?

A 160-page document prepared by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2012 and confirms a suspicion many of us have held for some time now: Google makes predatory use of its monopoly, providing search results aimed at damaging its competitors. What’s more, the FTC, instead of following , decided to do nothing other than . In other words, .

The leaked document shows that Google clearly to be guilty of all the practices of which it has been accused in recent years: , or by taking advantage of its privileged position as the search engine used by competitors to open their content, , putting its own services in more visible positions. These activities not only harmed its competitors to Google’s own benefit, but also failed its users by not offering search results based on relevance.

More alarming still is that with all this information in its possession, the FTC decided not to take action. It no longer matters if this was because of or its links to senior politicians, the point is that Google not only…