Re:EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google
by grey-area on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:06AM
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If they start charging. Theres nothing that i know of that suggests they will?
Note the ways to book on that link - via paid ads. They're already making money from obscuring organic search results and promoting their own content instead. They might choose to charge for adverts, for bookings, or for place entries, or for all three, but the end result is the same.
I doubt the EU will come up with a sensible solution, but there is definitely a problem here because Google is using its dominant position in one market to enter others (the above is just an example, there are lots of domains where they do this).
If they start charging. Theres nothing that i know of that suggests they will?
That aside, google displaying non-organic results like that is one of the reasons i use google. Like if i google "sunset vancouver" the first result is a box displaying exactly what i'm searching for. What's next, the sunset websites taking google to court due it leveraging its search monopoly?