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So it appears, "India's antitrust watchdog on Thursday imposed a 1.36 billion rupees ($21.17 million) fine on Google for "search bias" and abuse of its dominant position, in the latest regulatory setback for the world's most popular internet search engine."
In India, the Commission found, that Google through its search design had placed its commercial flight search function at a prominent position on the search results page to the disadvantage of businesses trying to gain market access.
The penalty... translates to 5 per cent of the company's average total revenue generated from India operations.
Some details of the "search bias" at https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/competition-commission-of-india-fines-google-for-rs-135-86-crores-for-search-bias/articleshow/62839148.cms
More coverage:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/cci-issues-order-against-google-for-search-bias/articleshow/62838992.cms
http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/technology/big-setback-for-google-whopping-rs-135-crore-fine-slapped-by-competition-commission-of-india-here-is-why/1058516/
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/indias-anti-trust-regulator-fines-google-for-search-bias/
Who trusts Google (an advertisement company) to give the correct, on-time flight details anyway?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @05:47AM (2 children)
Don't worry! Trump gonna fine India for all them hindu-chimps whose been domineering the position of H1B visa and then our American nerdy boys can get their jerbs back! Make computers great again!
.... said every graybeard tech dinosaur who voted Republican.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @05:59AM (1 child)
Is it because you've constructed your very identity around some organization that calls itself "government"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @06:16AM
Boo-bloody-hoo, cry me a river.