Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages

Re:Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in an... by brainwad on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:32PM (#48750435)

Google would say they aren't preferencing their product. They are preferencing the merchants who actually sell the products over middlemen who try to extract rents from said merchants. Because they put free links to merchants' product pages in search results.

TBH it's the same as Google not linking to other search engines' result pages in its search results. Why would it, when it can link directly the content the user wants?

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Re:Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in an... by thayne on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:52PM (#48750688)

Google is a middle man extracting rents from the merchants. I'm pretty sure merchants that pay for google ads get preferential treatment in google shopping results. Is it any worse than PriceRunner? Probably not, although I haven't used PriceRunner so I don't know.

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Re:Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in an... by brainwad on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:09PM (#48750942)

In Google the ads are at least segregated from normal results, like for web search.

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