Group of Google critics calls for EU antitrust action

Re:Group of Google critics calls for EU antitrust action by username90 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @11:37AM (#25071591)

Implementing new kinds of search results is as anti competitive as AWS implementing new kinds of dedicated services. There is no way third party solutions can compete with that, but it is unclear if it is a problem or not for AWS or Google to improve their offerings.

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Re:Group of Google critics calls for EU antitrust action by simion314 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:07PM (#25071904)

The issue I have with Google Search part is that it can be abused to promote Google products or Google approved information, and sometimes they scrape some information and present it as fact and out of context.

Many times I am wondering is Google pushing this youtube results on top when I search something because this results are more relevant or is because they make money from youtube views.

Could a video platform compete with youtube if Google searches will put youtube results first ?

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Re:Group of Google critics calls for EU antitrust action by tomaszs on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:37PM (#25074628)

I think even if Google does not do anything particular to gain, truth is it will earn money when people will click a Google Play game or YouTube video than a link to some random website like Wikipedia.

We should not expect business to not do what makes money. The problem is that sometimes it goes against some other values like freedom, safety, innovation.

Than it is the time to take action. This is the time when action should be taken

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Re:Group of Google critics calls for EU antitrust action by GlitchMr on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:19PM (#25072865)

I think at some point AWS may be declared anti-competitive. Vertical integration can be in certain cases anti-competitive, and huge AWS bandwidth fees strongly enforce keeping everything at AWS.

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