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The Federal Trade Commission is continuing its nvestigation of Google’s actions in bypassing the default privacy settings of the Apple Safari browser for Google users, reports the “Mercurcy News” (http://macte.ch/MrX0P), quoting unnamed “sources familiar with ongoing negotiations between the company and the government.”

Eighty two percent of Americans express a favorable opinion of Google overall according to a Langer Research Associates poll produced for ABC. What’s more, 53% express a “strongly” favorable opinion of the world’s leading search engine. Apple came in second in the poll.

Seventy-four percent see Apple favorably. However, in addition to trailing Google by a relatively slim eight percentage points overall, it lags by a wider 16 points in strong devotees.

Consumer Watchdog (http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org) — a non-partisan public interest organization with offices in Santa Monica, CA and Washington, D.C — says it welcomes reports confirming that the Federal Trade Commission and European regulators are investigating Google for violating the online privacy choices of consumers using the Safari web browser on Apple computers, iPhones and iPads.

According to a “Bloomberg” report (http://macte.ch/XWNV0), the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed Apple as part of its antitrust probe of Google, seeking info on how the computer maker uses the search engine on the iPhone and iPad.

The agency’s request for documents includes the agreements that made Google the preferred search engine on Apple’s mobile devices, according to the article quoting unnamed “people familiar with the matter.” Google rivals such as Microsoft have criticized these agreements as anticompetitive.