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Google search goes under EU antitrust microscope (ars technica)
Ars technica reports
that the European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation on
Google search results. "The investigation was sparked by complaints from other search service providers that Google ranks their results much lower in both unpaid and paid results rankings, and uses its overarching dominance in online search to plug its own services instead."
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What's the complaint again? Posted Dec 1, 2010 9:25 UTC (Wed) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link]
Upon reading the whole article, it looks like the phrase "other search service providers" in the highlighted should read "other web service providers", no? Otherwise the complaint makes no sense to me. Thoughts?
What's the complaint again? Posted Dec 1, 2010 10:50 UTC (Wed) by slothrop (guest, #69834) [Link]
There will be no EU left, when this will eventually hit the courts.
Maybe the EU bureaucrats should rethink their priorities?
What's the complaint again? Posted Dec 1, 2010 16:01 UTC (Wed) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]
I don't see that a possible Euro crisis (which is presumably what you're referring to) would necessarily have any effect at all on the antitrust work of the European Commission. The Commission was investigating, and the ECJ ruling on, antitrust cases for decades before the Euro was introduced, and does its work in many countries where the Euro is not currently used; and I can't see any reason for it not to continue on in the event that the Euro collapses and member states revert to their own currencies.
As for rethinking priorities, I'm not sure that those antitrust lawyers would have a huge amount to contribute to the issue of monetary policy. It's like the sometimes-heard cry on LWN after the news that some new esoteric kernel feature has been implemented, that 'Linux should rethink its priorities' towards usability -- as if those kernel hackers are all experts in UI design who'd be working on that if they could only be torn away from kernel hacking.
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