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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday June 28 2017, @12:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the mutual-overreach dept.

According to The Wall Street Journal:

The European Union's antitrust regulator on Tuesday fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google a record €2.42 billion ($2.71 billion) for favoring its own comparison-shopping service in search results and ordered the search giant to apply the same methods to rivals as its own when displaying their services.

[...] If the ruling sets a precedent that holds, these firms might all have to rethink how they make products that—like Google's search engine—have become more than just tools, but dominant gateways to the wider internet.

From The New York Times:

While the fine will garner attention, the focus will most likely shift quickly to the changes that Google will have to make to comply with the antitrust decision, potentially leaving it vulnerable to regular monitoring of its closely guarded search algorithm.

CNBC adds that, based on a filing, Google expects to ultimately pay this fine.


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  • (Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday June 28 2017, @07:21PM

    by quietus (6328) on Wednesday June 28 2017, @07:21PM (#532583) Journal

    Google's mistake was placing their own comparison-shopping results on the search page.

    The mistake was that they did so to expressly promote their own Google Shopping results.

    A couple years after launch, the Google Shopping service was, in Google's own wording(*), 'going nowhere'. From that moment on, rival comparison shopping services systematically turned up on average on page 4 of Google's own search results.

    * internal email traffic

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