The vast amount of product information available to consumers through online search renders most advertising obsolete … as a tool for conveying product information. Advertising remains useful to firms only as a tool for persuading consumers … persuasive advertising is anticompetitive and harmful to consumers, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was unable to pursue …

good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or oligopolies in their fields with huge economic rents, if they pass … examples. This advertising cost is added into the sales price of the product, resulting in consumers being harmed by the … embedded advertising costs in the products or services purchased. We argue here, using Bork's own criterion - except to expand …

2016, following a decade of trademark litigation in connection with its competitors’ Internet search advertising practices … advertising, explores the trademark litigation of 1-800, details the FTC’s recent enforcement action against the e-retailer, and …

, prices are zero - "free." On the other side of the market, Facebook's and Google's revenues are derived from advertising … market, monopoly pricing is well defined - as well as tests for predatory behavior; not so with multisided markets. Since the … markets for their potential for determining consumers' harm and welfare effects, as well as defining monopoly and predatory …

threaten the effectiveness of advertising …

expanding into every corner of the economy, politics and our lives. They control the majority of digital advertising; Alphabet …, Google's parent, and Facebook receive more than 60 percent of digital advertising revenue (Media Buying 2017); Google …

expanding into every corner of the economy, politics and our lives. They control the majority of digital advertising; Alphabet …, Google's parent, and Facebook receive more than 60 percent of digital advertising revenue (Media Buying 2017); Google …

rejected up to the consumer him/herself. -- global information society ; advertising ; junk information ; spam filter …