You don't think Google is a problem? I would like to add 5 illegal predatory practices observed from my own –business-experience with Google.

1. Google’s core business is to sell lists of links (search results) to advertisers. That’s how Google makes >80% of their income. A site’s searchengine rankings on Google’s SERPs are majorly influenced by the number and quality of back links. Any commercial site that sells these back links to advertisers (just as Google does) that improves a site’s SERP rankingson Google, will be put OUT of business. This is stated Google policy. Nothingcan be more predatory than this.

2. If one wants to advertise on Google’s search results, large companies that can already claim a top position in the very same results, get preferential treatment over new competitors. New entrants have a lower Google ranking for the item they want to advertise than the established competitors (which are Google’s best symbiotic customers). The lower search ranking of the entrant’s site is used by Google as the determining factor whether the “advertisement is relevant”. If it’s less relevant it will be virtually impossible to advertise on a competitive first SERP (search engine results page). This illegal tying between advertising and search results is to ensure that the competitive playing field is unleveled to the advantage of incumbent advertisers.

3. Predatory pricing. If one advertises at the top of Google search results and at the same time places a Google ad on the target page of that advertisement, the value difference between the two is more than 90%. In other words, buying the same ad from Google is more than 10 times more expensive than selling the same ad through Google. Claiming a decent margin is not illegal, but predatory pricing is.

4. Consumers may have the option to go to alternative search engines. Advertising businesses have no such option, unless they can affordto abandon 2/3 of the internet market.

5. Search results are rigged in Google’s own favor. Search for a local item or service, such as “My Town Therapist”, and you will not get the ten best results, but you’ll get Google’s own local Places pages instead. These Places pages generate advertising income that is –illegally-taken from other sites. In other words, the top ten sites before there was Google Places have been relegated to spots 11-20 because Google claimed the 10 most profitable rankings for themself. Google Places doesn’t rank that high because they came up organically through Google’s own algorithm. No, they rank so high because Google hard coded them there.