Google To Comply With EU Search Demands To Avoid More Fines (bloomberg.com)

Google will comply with Europe's demands to change the way it runs its shopping search service, a rare instance of the internet giant bowing to regulatory pressure to avoid more fines. From a report: The Alphabet unit faced a Tuesday deadline to tell the European Union how it planned to follow an order to stop discriminating against rival shopping search services in the region. A Google spokeswoman said it is sharing that plan with regulators before the deadline expires, but declined to comment further. The EU fined Google a record 2.4 billion euros ($2.7 billion) in late June for breaking antitrust rules by skewing its general search results to unfairly favor its own shopping service over rival sites. The company had 60 days to propose how it would "stop its illegal content" and 90 days to make changes to how the company displays shopping results when users search for a product. Those changes need to be put in place by Sept. 28 to stave off a risk that the EU could fine the company 5 percent of daily revenue for each day it fails to comply. "The obligation to comply is fully Google's responsibility," the European Commission said in an emailed statement, without elaborating on what the company must do to comply.

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I know how Google could save a bundle

[Applehu Akbar]

Instead of having a specially tailored version of search for each Constitution-free country, produce one limited version that would be, being the lowest common denominator of each of those countries' set of rules, usable in each. It would index only approved Chinese sites, would have nothing criticizing Putin or Erdogan, would forget individuals by default, and would bring up no restaurant listings during Ramadan. With so many restrictions built into it, Google Censored could be implemented by that French staff that has to work a thirty-hour week.

"Fake news" filters next

[renegadesx]

Next thing the EU will force Google to censor or filter out anything critical of the EU regime under the guise of "Fake News".
The EU is going down the road of China and other totalitarian regimes. I thought the UK would be safe but the Torries internet policy was just as bad which is scary.