Silicon Valley legislators go to bat for Google over FTC probe
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Whether Google has violated antitrust laws may be up to the courts to decide, but it is clear that cluttering flight and hotel search results screens with results predominantly from its own products harms consumers.
With the FTC reportedly close to deciding on whether to sue Google over the way it directs users to its own products in search, two of Google's hometown Congressional representatives have urged the commission to avoid going after Google for deceptive practices.
Representatives Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren sent a letter to FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz urging the commission to contain its probe of Google to antitrust issues, and to avoid expanding the
