French Court Calls Free Google Maps Unfair Competition

jfruh writes "A French court has ruled that Google is unfairly subsidizing its free mapping products, making for unfair competition with paid services. This might seem ridiculous, but keep in mind that Google started charging for use of its mapping API once the free version had come to dominate the market."

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Re:This was predicted to happen two years ago

[NeutronCowboy]

Please show me how Google has the ability to fix prices in the Search market, AND how they grow their market share in that market through means other than normal business operation. Finally, show that Bottin is somehow active in the online map market. Actually, I'll save you the trouble: they are a terrible knock-off of the original Yahoo, but aimed at businesses. Google has little to do with their market.

Note that being dominant in an area has very little to do with being a monopoly, and even less to do with monopolization of your market position.