Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches

Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by wand3r on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:58AM (#14644136)

While I think net neutrality (as it is defined) is important Google is a serious consolidation risk. Gmail has 1b users the internet has 3.2-3.5. Google probably controls 2/3 of that. Not only is search quality going down, but this is absurdly dangerous. Controlling shopping results is tame compared to the potential for misuse

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Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by sddfd on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:20AM (#14644293)

> Not only is search quality going down [...]

How so? I like to think Google Search is constantly improving. Do you care to elaborate?

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Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by martin_bech on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:27AM (#14644334)

Because the first page (at least above the fold) is literally all adds, for many searches.

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Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by arkitaip on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:36AM (#14644386)

I haven't seen an ad on desktop for years thanks to adblock. But mobile is getting pretty awful, true.

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Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by userbinator on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:36AM (#14644385)

Adverts and also vapid content-mill sites.

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