Wow interesting statements and answers coming from US senate hearing witness claims, from Nextag, Yelp, Fairsearch against Google;
CLAIM: “Is a consumer (or a small business, for that matter) well served when Google artificially promotes its own properties regardless of merit? This has nothing to do with helping consumers get to the best information; it has everything to do with generating more revenue.”
RESPONSE: In fact, most of the click traffic (roughly two-thirds of clicks) from our local search result pages goes directly to small business websites, and review sites make up the next largest percentage (about a quarter of clicks). Less than 10% of clicks from our local results page go to Google Place Pages.
see; http://googlecompetition.blogspot.com/2011/09/responses-to-senate-hearing-witness.html
