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​Comment: Price-comparison dispute in Brazil may be best resolved by Google

By Ana Paula Candil ( October 25, 2017, 17:01 GMT | Comment) -- Google's main opponent in a price-comparison dispute in Brazil has suggested the search engine should earmark a dedicated space on its pages for rival price-comparison sites only. But this proposal could do more harm than good to competition among all websites in the country. If Brazilian antitrust officials conclude the US Internet giant breached competition rules, they may want to look at how the European Commission's approach — of letting Google come up with the solution — has worked there.Google's main opponent in a price-comparison dispute in Brazil has suggested the search engine should earmark a dedicated space on its pages for rival price-comparison sites only. But this proposal could do more harm than good to competition among all websites in the country....

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