The company has been repeatedly sued by smaller competitors for anticompetitive practices and, in one case, for hacking.

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Google has denied any anticompetitive practices and has repeatedly said it creates its services to benefit users, rather than other websites.

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David Balto, a former policy director for the Federal Trade Commission, now in private practice, says that the legal definition of anticompetitive practices has changed since 1998.

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