The Markup Investigation: Congressman Says that Google engineered a “Walled Garden”

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The Markup published a months-long, painstaking investigation into Google Search that quantified how much the company highlights its own products and serves ‘answers’ on the results page. Google spokesperson Lara Levin called the report’s methodology “flawed and misleading” Google gave 41 percent of the first search results page to itself and dominated the coveted first screen. It was the sixth in a year-long series titled Online Platforms and Market Power, which has included testimony from experts, competitors, and lower-level executives from the four tech giants.