This fine is moronic on so many levels I'm just cringing in disbelief:
Google search engine is not a public service - they don't owe anything to anyone, they are free to show whichever results they want to and deem necessary.
Google is not the only search engine in the world - there's Bing, Yahoo and others. How on earth can they abuse their "monopolistic" position if there's none?
Google is not selling you their search engine - it's provided basically free of charge (sans ads you may or may not click).
Exactly. Thank you. And the US should be doing likewise. In other times they took apart Standard Oil and Ma Bell. Microsoft? just a slap on the wrist. Google? Crickets.
Actually, the US does define abuse of a market position the same way the EU does. As long as you're the dominant player, you don't get to abuse your position. See the government lawsuits against IBM and Microsoft and Intel having to cut a deal with AMD to avoid the same fate.
This is utterly insane (Score:2, Troll)
This fine is moronic on so many levels I'm just cringing in disbelief:
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they don't owe anything to anyone, they are free to show whichever results they want to and deem necessary.
Not according to the law.
How on earth can they abuse their "monopolistic" position if there's none?
They have over 90% market share. That's enough according to the law.
Google is not selling you their search engine
The complaint is that they are using their free search to promote their other businesses over competing businesses.
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> Not according to the law.
Exactly. Thank you. And the US should be doing likewise. In other times they took apart Standard Oil and Ma Bell. Microsoft? just a slap on the wrist. Google? Crickets.
Re:This is utterly insane (Score:2)