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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by flexie on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:29AM (#14643935)
Business is what is stopping Google from not servicing Europe. Google makes huge part of its profit on search in Europe and pays almost no tax in Europe.

If Google stopped servicing Europe, one or more European competitors would emerge in days or weeks and Google's dominance would be threatened worldwide within months. It would be a completely suicidal move.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by cJ0th on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:06AM (#14644973)
Yeah, it seems "search" isn't as untouchable as it used to be. Qwant, for instance, may not be a 100% there but it is quite good.

https://www.qwant.com/

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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by zepto on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @08:35PM (#14650833)
What are you taking about? Any Google Search competitor needs to be seriously better than google in order to stand a chance, ‘not 100% there’ is equivalent to not there at all.

Moreover Qwant is just bing search results repackaged.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by cJ0th on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @03:47AM (#14652388)
> Moreover Qwant is just bing search results repackaged.

Not in France and Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Criticism

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