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European parliament set to call for break-up of Google in antitrust case

Submitted by: Hologram @ 10:35 AM | Saturday, November 22, 2014 | (url: http://www.thegua...)



The European parliament is reportedly poised to call for a break-up of Google in a drastic escalation of Europes long-running antitrust case against the tech giant.

A draft motion seen by the Financial Times, and expected to be agreed next week, calls for the unbundling [of] search engines from other commercial services as a potential solution to Googles dominance of the search market in Europe.

The European Commission has been investigating concerns that Google has abused its dominant position in search since 2010 and the dispute has become increasingly bitter. In September the EUs incoming digital commissioner Gnther Oettinger warned that any settlement with Google could cement its strength in the market rather than diluting it.

German, French and Spanish politicians have attacked the company over a variety of issues including revelations from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and right to be forgotten legislation that allows people to delete information from search results.


11-22-14 - 10:40 AM
Pathetic
11-22-14 - 10:41 AM
bing is better for porn
11-22-14 - 10:44 AM
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11-22-14 - 10:44 AM
look @ me mama

im newspostin
11-22-14 - 10:46 AM
11-22-14 - 10:47 AM
Originally posted by Al'Muktar  
look @ me mama

im newspostin


@least im not posting racist shit
11-22-14 - 10:48 AM
Originally posted by Kismet  
bing is better for porn
11-22-14 - 10:49 AM
Originally posted by Hologram  
Disgusting. Are they trying to say that people should use Bing instead? :lol:

No. But unlike 'MERRIKKUH the EU doesnt appreciate monopolies that much.
11-22-14 - 11:02 AM
Originally posted by Nash  
No. But unlike 'MERRIKKUH the EU doesnt appreciate monopolies that much.


I think their issue isn't that there's a monopoly (because there isn't one), but the fact that Google services don't have a way to choose the search engine. It's a really retarded argument, but there it is. I guess what they would like to see is Bing or Yahoo search integrated into Google products (like Google maps for example). Fucking retarded.
11-22-14 - 11:08 AM
Originally posted by Hologram  
@least im not posting racist shit


ya this is tru

i wasnt bein mean tho i am #nobully
11-22-14 - 11:36 AM
so i guess what the E.U. will do is use force against the people to make sure they use google, then bing, then ask, then yahoo each day for every search they perform and if they dont, the State will have their ISP's inform the State and then throw the criminal into jail to teach them a lesson about the evils of using one corporation to get their information from.
11-22-14 - 11:44 AM
I Googled antitrust and got no hits :shrug:
11-22-14 - 11:48 AM
The Google will smite the EU for this heresy
11-22-14 - 11:48 AM
Originally posted by samUwell  
so i guess what the E.U. will do is use force against the people to make sure they use google, then bing, then ask, then yahoo each day for every search they perform and if they dont, the State will have their ISP's inform the State and then throw the criminal into jail to teach them a lesson about the evils of using one corporation to get their information from.


or none of this will happen??

sammy you americans are batshit terrified of your leaders and it is both funny and worrying to others
11-22-14 - 12:12 PM
What bing and the competition really wants is for Google to be required to share their search data. Not just the index, but rather the search terms and phrases people use.
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