Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches

Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by xg15 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:41AM (#14644418)

> Like hell they do(have a monopoly)! there are plenty of other searchengines out there, and ther is nothing that forces you towards google...

90% market share.

Besides, I keep hearing that argument but it never made sense to me. The monopoly is not (mainly) about the users of the search engine - they could in theory switch to something else (even though for some mysterious reason, most of them don't. See above.) The actual monopoly is for the sites that depend on Google to be found. The simple choice for then is to submit to Google's standards or lose the majority of their traffic. So talk of force is justified here.

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Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by __ddd__ on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:09PM (#14655364)

I have shied away from certain designs because Google has very specific ideas about how a site should be structured, rooted in the pre- web app days. If Google had real competition, they would adapt to better index "modern" designs and architectures. Instead, developers/designers have to limit ourselves if we want Google to not only index our content, but not penalize our rankings.

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Re:Google Gets Record $2.7B EU Fine for Skewing Searches by nasalgoat on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:50PM (#14658248)

Well, that or look at your headers and serve the googlebot what it expects, and show everyone else what you actually want to show - as long as it's not too different content-wise.

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