EU To Hit Google With Antitrust Charges

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @04:16PM from the don't-be-too-good-at-what-you-do dept.

Bruce66423 sends news that the European Union has decided to hit Google with antitrust charges that could lead to fines of over $6 billion. The EU has been investigating Google for five years now. "The European Commission has highlighted four main areas of concern in its investigation: potential bias in Google’s search results, scraping content from rival websites, agreements with advertisers that may exclude rival search-advertising services and contracts that limit marketers from using other platforms." They're also keeping an eye on Android-related business practices.

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Re:People are tribal even when they don't realize by Richard_at_work · 2015-04-14 19:22 · Score: 1, Flamebait

What Google should be investigated for is linking their search service to their failed social media service - in order for Google to establish canonical authorship on content, you have to link the page to a Google+ account, no other well known public profile (Twitter, Facebook etc) will do, you have to have an account on Google+.
That's something worth looking hard at.