Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches

Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by wiz21c on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:52AM (#14644093)

Although I don't like advertisement, my understanding is that Google provides massive added value there. So why on earth do they have to skew their results ?

Or, maybe I don't properly understand "skew", i.e. the european commission condemned not so much a voluntary bias from Google rather than a "natural" bias from Google...

The good news is that if we can constraint Google on economical ground, we can also constraint them on more ethical stuff, such has fight against terrorism...

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Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by sddfd on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:21AM (#14644302)

For the european market there is the product search engine https://geizhals.eu/ which is in all aspects better than Google Product Search ever was.

However, when you search for a product on Google Search, for example, "intel 7600k", Google Search displays the side bar "Google Shopping Results" but no link to this site.

I imagine people who do not know about geizhals tend to just use Google Shopping then..

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Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by Radle on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:17AM (#14644279)

Because people loosing their jobs has nothing to do with ethnics.

Here is it google had a product. Other people had products. Googles product sucked so they put in higher in the rankings. That's "skewing"

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