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Google Hit By New Round Of Antitrust Charges In Europe (bloomberg.com)
The European commission has filed a third antitrust charge against Google -- this time it is against the Mountain View-based company's AdSense advertising business. The EU regulator is accusing Google of abusing its dominance in search to benefit its own advertising business, one of company's main revenue stream. A Bloomberg article explains the whole situation: While this is an escalation for the advertising probe, the statement of objections focused on comparison shopping bolsters a case the European Commission first laid out in an antitrust complaint in April 2015. Both of these investigations are in addition to an ongoing antitrust case against Alphabet Inc. for the alleged market-dominance of its Android mobile operating system that the EU filed in April. The antitrust issues are just one strand of a net of regulatory problems entangling the company in Europe. It is facing a separate inquiry
into its use of copyrighted content from European publishers and complaints about its compliance with European "right to be forgotten" rules. A bevy of individual European governments are also investigating the company for alleged underpayment of tax. In response to the latest EU antitrust complaints, Google said that its products "increased choice for European consumers and promote competition," and that will provide a detailed response to the European Commission's claims in the coming weeks. In the past, Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt has said European officials should spend more time trying to promote Europe's own tech sector and less time trying to punish successful American companies.
Bummer for them...
Only I can judge you.
If you want to see the same happen in the US.
EU regulator is accusing Google of abusing its dominance in search to benefit its own advertising business.
So the EU regulator is accusing Google of being a popular search engine that makes money from advertising?
http://www.merriam-webster.com...
Android has 71% of the MOBILE market in Europe, including OEM-cusromized versions which aren't what Google published.
Personally, I wouldn't call less than 71% "complete control of the entire supply".
Why doesn't the EU just create the Google Tax and be done with it.
Transparent money grab. Might as well be honest about it.
Using Google is a choice.
Remove all Google offices from Europe. Continue to allow Android device manufacturers to sell products in Europe and allow Europeans to purchase Google services and products. Just don't have a physical presence in Europe. That way, Europe can't enforce their ridiculous and draconian laws against Google.
> abusing its dominance in search to benefit its own advertising business
Yeah, but those aren't separate businesses. They're the same thing. Google accepts questions (search queries) from users and gives them back answers (relevant information, including information from people who paid to be considered relevant). Even advertising embedded in pages is the same; the page information constitutes an expression of interest in a topic, and the advertisements are intended to answer that interest. That's one coherent business. It's not one I like, but that doesn't make them separate businesses.
You wouldn't accuse Schick of abusing its dominance in re-usable handles to benefit its own razor-selling business.
The EU is trying to appear distant from Google and the US spy agencies (CIA especially).
Matthew 24:38,24:39,24:40
Search for it with duckduckgo.com
American taxpayers paid for all the spy/surveillance gear (and spy salaries including 9/11 WTC on-the-clock) and are now in debt up to their eyeballs.
Real gay shit.
and say so in a song.
I see the European publishers still have the old complaint that Google is showing snippets of their news stories, which discourages people from going to the source website.
As alway, the answer is obvious. If they don't want Google to do that, block them with robots.txt and then they won't show anything. It's as easy as that! But of course the publishers know that doing that would greatly reduce their traffic. So they just sit around and whine.
Kudos to the EU commission for standing up to Google. Google is becoming too strong and powerful. Something like this would never happen in the US, where Google can just use lobbyists to get whatever it wants.
This should be a wake-up call to all the folks who proclaim that "Brexit" is a wonderful thing. The EU is just about the only political entity strong enough to stand up to big powerful corporations. It may not be perfect, but breaking it up and dissolving the EU would be a terrible step backwards.
Another example is Monsanto, and GMOs. In America and Canada, Monsanto et al have used their lobbying power to prevent GMOs from being labeled. In the EU, GMOs MUST be labelled, by law, and Monsanto et al have given up trying to fight it.
Google cannot be considered a monopolist in any way, shape or form.
Why?
Because it doesn't conrtrol the billions of people that crawl through the internet, that's why.
Just because billions of people "choose" to use Google, does not give them any control.
Just because a majority of the web sites use Google, not because Google is a monopolist, but because billions of people use / prefer Google's products, does not make Google a monopolist.
In other words, to the pathetically ignorant European fuckwads pulling these idiotic stunts, you're going after the wrong people.
If you don't like it that Google gets most of the ads, searches, whatnot, then stop your damned people from using google.
Basically, Google wins because a majority of the people around the globe PREFER to use Google.
It's that simple. Apparently the EU leaders don't have the 2 working neurons that it would take to grasp this concept.
The EU wants to extort Google for as much money as possible before the EU is disbanded.
knosws for 5ure what
Google is just a US government spy corporation masqurading as a search engine with phone/tablet sales.
cut/paste the following into a text file and import it into custom filters in your adblock plus. allow them when you need them. also set your clock to way wrong unles you need it correct to timestamp an outgoing email.
---name it whatever.txt after this line, it is just a good start. add more and uncheck if you want them to actually see you.---
[Adblock Plus 2.0]
! Checksum: yUmFkHJWRjuyFZdV9gNRcw
! [cunts]
||omniroot.com^
||bing.net^
||youtube-nocookie.com^
||symcd.com^
||ytimg.com^
||googlevideo.com^
||shavar.services.mozilla.com^
||mozilla.org^
||googletagmanager.com^
||clients1.google.com^
||facebook.com^
||google-analytics.com^
||googletagservices.com^
||google.com^
||twitter.com^
||googlesyndication.com^
||ajax.googleapis.com^
||facebook.net^
||gstatic.com^
||youtube.com^
! [vid.me spies]
||petametrics.com^
||janrain.com^
So someone do it better, then they get the money instead of google. That's how a free market works. This is just a government sanctioned shakedown. The Euros want a slice of that pie, and they'll probably get it too.