European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance

Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by timClicks on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:13AM (#14645534)

> "user experience worse"

Not necessarily. I read this as saying that if other players have well marked up content, they should have their listings appear in infoboxes, perhaps alongside Google's. Not that the infoboxes be removed.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:31AM (#14645697)

Pretty sure that's what Google Product Search used to do. They ended up having to change it because the resulting quality of those listings was terrible.

See https://commerce.googleblog.com/2012/05/building-better-shop...

Maybe if they tried again they could do better this time; I'm a little skeptical though.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by jolic on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:34PM (#14646891)

Wow, the screenshot in the post is like a parody. (And that's the "new Google Shopping experience").

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nw0uS-CN17o/T8cd822KTBI/AAAAAAAAA...

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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:13PM (#14647235)

That's pretty much how ads on Google used to look. They've improved quite a bit since then.

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