{"id":221179,"date":"2025-09-12T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221179\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:23:18","slug":"amazon-google-probed-by-ftc-over-search-ad-practices-amzn-googl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221179\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Google Probed by FTC Over Search Ad Practices (AMZN, GOOGL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/13362Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">US Federal Trade Commission<\/a> is investigating whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AMZN:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Amazon.com Inc.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/GOOGL:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Alphabet Inc.<\/a>\u2019s Google misled advertisers that place ads on their websites, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The investigations, which are being conducted by the agency\u2019s consumer protection unit, focus on whether the companies properly disclosed the terms and pricing for ads,<strong> <\/strong>said<strong> <\/strong>the people, who asked not to be named discussing a confidential matter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google misled advertisers that place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3222,61142,3453,120379,64,89735,61449,50123,15428,3229,158,67,132,68,5223],"class_list":{"0":"post-221179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-advertising","9":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","10":"tag-amazon-com-inc","11":"tag-attorneys-general","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-consumer-protection","14":"tag-donald-john-trump","15":"tag-executives","16":"tag-justice-department","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115192018051105108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}