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Business model has nothing to with anti-competitive behavior, it’s about being in the same industry / providing the same service.

Suppressing sites that display advertising seems like it is anticompetitive behavior against other ad networks, no?

Only if they targeted sites that didn't use AdSense and let sites that did use AdSense place ads wherever they wanted.

Since their own ads on the search results page are not targeted that is a clear yes then.