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by jodoglevy 4779 days ago
It wasn't just Google changing their rankings (to manually put their own results ahead of competitors), they were also scraping data from these competitors and displaying it as their own, which they continued to do after the FTC told them to stop.

Here's a good summary of some of Google's questionable practices around search (disclaimer: I wrote this for a class in college): http://thechronicle.github.io/blog/2012/06/01/dont-be-evil/