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The EU has a plan to break up Google
The Verge ^ | November 21, 2014 02:48 pm | Ben Popper

Posted on 11/23/2014 11:58:38 PM PST by Olog-hai

Google has been the target of repeated anti-trust scrutiny in Europe over the last decade.

Today’s Financial Times is reporting that the European parliament is on the verge of taking even more drastic steps, preparing a plan that would call for the breakup of the search giant, specifically the “unbundling [of] search engines from other commercial services.” […]

When asked by Financial Times why a drastic measure like a breakup was necessary, Ramon Tremosa, a Spanish member of the EU parliment who sponsored the motion, said the commission could not “ask the secret of [Google’s] algorithm” and was seeking other remedies to curb its power. …

(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Technical
KEYWORDS: breakup; eussr; google

1 posted on 11/23/2014 11:58:39 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Perhaps one should ask the EU....if you unbundle the commercial side from the search engine side....how does the search engine side pay for it’s services/options? I don’t see how you’d avoid paying a fee every time you did a search of say....two cents....in order to pay for a search.

What amazes me about the EC (European Council, the controlling arm or legislative controller of the EU)....is they sit around and try to think of the top hundred gimmicks without any value for the common European citizen, and then prioritize them near the top.


2 posted on 11/24/2014 12:38:45 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

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3 posted on 11/24/2014 1:07:32 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Olog-hai

cute!

I think my temptation would be to ask just why in the minds of certain eu Parliament members google power is a problem?


4 posted on 11/24/2014 1:17:52 AM PST by wita
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To: Olog-hai

Google should make sure the first hit from every EU search is an article about “hamburgers”.


5 posted on 11/24/2014 1:39:23 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Olog-hai

Good! I hate google! Just a spy agency!


6 posted on 11/24/2014 2:37:37 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Olog-hai
and was seeking other remedies to curb its power. …

Ever try competition?

7 posted on 11/24/2014 2:53:48 AM PST by SeeSharp
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To: Olog-hai

Perhaps they could consider “un bundling” EU taxation, environmental regulations, & immigration policy from paying the rent & salaries in Brussels?


8 posted on 11/24/2014 3:12:31 AM PST by BwanaNdege (I wonder which side they choose whe)
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To: BwanaNdege

This is why the European Union will fail. Over bloated and overreaching. Micro managers from hell.


9 posted on 11/24/2014 4:09:27 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSAa)
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To: Olog-hai

Europe needs celebrate muzzies raping their children and women......


10 posted on 11/24/2014 4:33:12 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Olog-hai

They just want google to make it rain money in Europe, the way they do elsewhere.


11 posted on 11/24/2014 4:43:06 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Olog-hai
The EU has a plan to break up Google

I can't wait to see the headline, "Google has a plan to break up the EU."

12 posted on 11/24/2014 4:48:16 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Olog-hai
Every time you think the EU couldn't get more stupid, it gets more stupid. I guess the EU Commission thinks Google is the only search engine on the market.

The truth is, they attack Google because it is successful, and American, and they resent it for both reasons.

13 posted on 11/24/2014 4:55:10 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Olog-hai

No sympathy here for Google...imo they’ve fritzed up just about everything that the internet was unique, time saving, efficient, fun about.

Even a simple thing like email has become a goat screw.


14 posted on 11/24/2014 5:34:17 AM PST by exPBRrat
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So it’s okay for the EU to go after their source code simply because they’ve “fritzed everything up” according to personal opinion?

The EU goes after every US tech company in the same manner. Think about that.


15 posted on 11/24/2014 6:05:14 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SeeSharp

In the EU’s social market economy, government controls and defines competition.


16 posted on 11/24/2014 6:07:39 AM PST by Olog-hai
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