EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection

Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by knolax on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:13AM (#21674795)

I wonder how long until we get an EU version of Google/Yandex/Baidu.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by input_sh on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:43AM (#21674866)

You mean like Qwant (French) and Startpage (Dutch)?

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by lalame on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:27AM (#21675160)

Startpage isn't an actual search engine, it's just a wrapper around Google's results. That's not the case with Qwant, Yandex, or Baidu as far as I know.

Also, this: https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by ferongr on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:27AM (#21675603)

Quant only exists in order to receive all that sweet, sweet grant money.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by anoncake on Sunday December 01, 2019 @03:07PM (#21677509)

All for-profit companies only exist in order to receive that sweet, sweet money.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by dmix on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:54AM (#21676317)

So basically the quintessential EU version of Google.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by m4rtink on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:00AM (#21675745)

Also Seznam (Czech). They have also asorted related services, like video streaming, an auction site, shopping aggregator, etc.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by jokoon on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:34AM (#21675404)

there was a scandal where it was shown qwant had its search result from bing

not holding my breath

DDG seems like a good contender

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by lebaux on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:53AM (#21675482)

DDG, Ecosia and Quant all use the same underlying Bing (Microsoft) data.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by ecf on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:47PM (#21677081)

Startpage recently sold out to System1, an ad tech company.

I would not recommend it anymore.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by avocado4 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:49PM (#21677095)

Never, EU hates tech & its inherent effects on society. This investigation is an example of it.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by anoncake on Sunday December 01, 2019 @03:05PM (#21677500)

TIL surveillance is an inherent effect of tech on society.

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