Google’s South Korea offices has been raided by federal authorities once more — this time, over alleged antitrust violations. Based on the Wall Street Journal, the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) stormed Google’s Seoul offices on Tuesday, amid claims that the corporate unfairly stifles competition by making its search engine the default option on Android handsets. South Korea’s largest mobile search operators, NHN and Daum Communications, filed a complaint with the KFTC in April, claiming that Android is “systematically designed” to deter users from switching to different portals, and that Google excludes competitors by delaying OS certification for phone manufacturers that try and pre-load devices with other se’s. Similar charges, as you can still recall, fueled an FTC investigation inside the US, where anti-competitive allegations were flying around for some months, now. Google neither confirmed nor denied that yesterday’s raid happened, but a spokesperson said the corporate would “work with the KFTC to handle any questions they might have about our business,” adding that its OS does “not require carriers or manufacturers to incorporate Google Search or Google applications on Android-powered devices.”
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