As you may know, Google was in a hearing this week in congress around antitrust issues, so was Apple, Facebook and Amazon.
Well, Congressman David N. Cicilline questioned Google on the Google's mission on getting people to go off of the search results page and on to a different site as quickly as possible. He then referenced a study Rand Fishkin published on SparkToro named As the Antitrust Case Against Google Kicks Off, Here’s Where the DOJ Should Start. This study basically shows that Google sends a surprisingly low percentage of clicks out of its search results pages to non-Google properties. Read that study.
Here is a video of one of the snippets where Rand's study was mentioned, it was mentioned actually numerous times in the hearing:
Yo @randfish, you catch this 🔥 set of questions from @RepCicilline to Google at yesterday's hearing? pic.twitter.com/8yzx3S1Ecv
— Luther Lowe (@lutherlowe) July 17, 2019
Here's @randfish's other cameo at Tuesday's House hearing: an excellent set of questions by @RepRaskin to Google (and eventually Apple). Once again the Google rep feigns ignorance. 🤦
— Luther Lowe (@lutherlowe) July 18, 2019
(CC @rustybrick) pic.twitter.com/o73mIqC8qr
Here is the full hearing if you want to listen to it all:
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) July 16, 2019
Forum discussion at Twitter.
