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Re:EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google by makomk on Thursday April 02, 2015 @05:05AM (#9309417)
The absurd thing is, one of the main companies pushing this is Microsoft and they know how important a feature this is - the main advantage of Bing that they advertised everywhere was that it included stuff like maps and other contextual information in the search results. Then Google rolled out the same feature and Microsoft tried to use anti-competition law to force Google to remove it.
Re:EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google by throwawaykf05 on Thursday April 02, 2015 @08:35AM (#9310241)
I've said it the last time this popped up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236862) but when you have a dominant monopoly position, you can't always safely do what "everyone else" does. Antitrust laws are tricky like that. Nobody cares when Apple bundles a browser and media player with its OS.