European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance

Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by jasode on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:03AM (#14644954)

>- Google Shopping, I never saw a reason to use it and I never did, I prefer to use local shops or Amazon

I use Google Shopping for price comparisons across mutliple retailers. (The service was originally named Froogle.) I originally used Pricewatch.com but switched to Froogle/GoogleShopping because it had better results.

Unfortunately, the local shops and Amazon don't offer the same breadth of comparisons. E.g. if I want to buy a new harddrive, Google Shopping tells me whether the lowest price is at Newegg, BHPhoto, or somewhere else.[1]

If there is a superior substitute to Google Shopping, I'd love to know about it.

[1] example: https://www.google.com/shopping/product/3954751729784172026?...

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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by sweden on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:50AM (#14645334)

Those websites are primarily american, so I am assuming you live in America. In Europe, I would say Google Shopping is more bothersome than it is useful. Whatever point you were trying to make by highlighting the usefulness of the service in your region, you forgot to take into account the rest of the world.

Besides, if you like to use Google Shopping, no one is stopping you.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by jasode on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:55AM (#14645369)

>Besides, if you like to use Google Shopping, no one is stopping you.

I have no irrational loyalty to Google Shopping. I was genuinely asking for better price comparison alternatives. Not sure what prompted your petty sniping.

What's the superior European price comparison website you're using that should be ahead of Google Shopping results?

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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by orsenfelt on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @05:57PM (#14649885)

Interestingly, Google Shopping (when it was Froogle) used to be quite good - back when any eCommerce site could just send in the feed of their stock.

At some point they moved towards Google Checkout (Google Merchant/Wallet?) verification and the number of stores you could actually find with it dropped dramatically.

Now it's just high street retailers, a handful of the bigger online places and eBay. Not only is it not as useful, it's killed off the sites that came before it as they tried to adapt and survive.

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