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.
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Disgusting. Are they trying to say that people should use Bing instead? :lol:
No. But unlike 'MERRIKKUH the EU doesnt appreciate monopolies that much.
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.
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ya this is tru
i wasnt bein mean tho i am #nobully
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