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Originally Posted by purl4peace
"SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department has begun an inquiry into the antitrust implications of Google’s settlement with authors and publishers over its Google Book Search service, two people briefed on the matter said Tuesday.
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Note, this is just an inquiry so they can determine IF there are any antitrust implications. This is pretty much standard procedure for the justice department when there are any large corporations that start getting into new business areas, or when two large companies merge, etc. Nothing to really get excited about yet. If they come back and say "yes, this is an antitrust violation", then that's news. Most of the time they don't do that though.