Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin...
by calcifer on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:02AM
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> You're acting like the outcome of this decision was in any way predictable based on the "rules of the EU"
Yes it was [0].
> If I owned a website that had a search engine and comparison shopping and email, I would not expect that it's somehow wrong if my search engine shows results from my service's comparison shopping and email
If your search engine had a dominant position in the EU market and if you used that dominance to put your shopping product above other competitors', then yes, it would not only be wrong, but also illegal.
Yes it was [0].
> If I owned a website that had a search engine and comparison shopping and email, I would not expect that it's somehow wrong if my search engine shows results from my service's comparison shopping and email
If your search engine had a dominant position in the EU market and if you used that dominance to put your shopping product above other competitors', then yes, it would not only be wrong, but also illegal.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law