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> This website is so clearly a scam created for this antitrust case.

I can't speak for the quality of their product but this is absolutely not true, Kelkoo has been around since 1999[0], almost as long as Google itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelkoo




From your "source":

> In November 2008, Kelkoo was sold by Yahoo! Inc to the private equity firm Jamplant Ltd.

The current CEO has been there since 2009, shortly after the acquisition.

Jamplant was incorporated in October of 2008, one month before the acquisition. The director was Andrew Simon Davis, who is frequently listed as a director of shell companies and trusts. In the same month he was appointed director to dozens of other companies.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/LQ_FXmuiSA4f8cOG...

The Kelkoo Group is based out of the same office as Jamplant, along with dozens of other companies, what indicates a virtual office or company registration service.

https://www.google.com/search?q=6th+Floor+Portland+House+Bre...

It has 5 employees, and seems to have consistently lost money over the past years, and its largest shareholder (and only institutional shareholder) is Kelkoo Group itself.

Kelkoo itself was already dead on the water by the time of the acquisition: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=kelkoo

That was shortly after the initial complaints against Google:

https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/legal-news-articles/ca...


>The Kelkoo Group is based out of the same office as Jamplant, along with dozens of other companies, what indicates a virtual office or company registration service.

That office is 300k sqft of 'flexible office space.'


Not just the same address, but the same floor.


If by "Kelkoo" you mean "a yahoo proxy", then yes

See the "a yahoo company" at the very top of this archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20050701004143/http://www.kelkoo... (you'll need to collapse the archive.org banner on top - it is hidden behind it by default)


From the wikipedia page:

> On March 26, 2004, Kelkoo was bought by Yahoo! Inc for €450 million.


Um, yes, that is the point i am making. Them being Yahoo is precisely why they have beef with Google.


It's not Yahoo anymore since 2008.




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