So much for Google giving Obama special treatment or backing his campaigns – the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected to move forward in a detailed anti-trust investigation on Google’s business practices.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Google is not new to smaller antri-trust probes and talking to the US government but this seems to be something that Google has never met before – at least at this scale. It makes Google look Microsoft-like, which is very upsetting to many Googlers, in my opinion.

That being said, there is a lot of opinion on this topic from smarter people than I. Check it out at Techmeme.

Personally, I think it is a waste of tax dollars – but heck, what do I know?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld & Google Blogoscoped Forums.