EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google

Re:EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google by jqm on Friday November 28, 2014 @01:41AM (#8669924)

Reducing the effectiveness of search does almost nobody any good. If the concern is so great, pool some resources and make an equivalent government sponsored search engine. Which probably no one will use because as much as they mistrust Google, they likely trust their government even less.

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Re:EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google by j_jochem on Friday November 28, 2014 @01:55AM (#8669949)

I think the idea here is to split off the search business from Google's other business areas to prevent those from abusing the data collected by Search. Not saying this is a good idea, but the distinction is important.

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Re:EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google by progress on Friday November 28, 2014 @02:06AM (#8669976)

What Google is doing so far is actually REDUCING the quality of the overall search, by promoting their own services unfairly more than the competition.

So no, letting them into a monopoly position harms the society more.

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Re:EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google by jqm on Friday November 28, 2014 @02:13AM (#8669985)

So how exactly is Google able to be in position to engage in this unfair promotion? Because they are.....?.

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Re:EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google by progress on Friday November 28, 2014 @02:17AM (#8669988)

...a monopoly.

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Re:EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google by jqm on Friday November 28, 2014 @02:25AM (#8670004)

I don't think so. But they do have a disproportionate market share. Why?

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