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YouTube receives no preferential treatment in search results, Google tells Australian inquiry

By James Panichi
  • 19 Aug 2024 09:10
  • 19 Aug 2024 09:14
Google has slammed claims that its search engine engages in self-preferencing, with the tech giant telling an Australian inquiry that recent submissions alleging the practice had been filed by businesses bristling over their results’ low ranking.
In a new submission to Australia’s digital platform services inquiry (see here), the company

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James Panichi

Senior Editor, Asia Pacific


James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the European operation of US political website Politico as an investigative reporter specializing in governance, transparency and lobbying.

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