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posted by janrinok on Friday February 09 2018, @04:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the play-fair dept.

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."

https://in.reuters.com/article/india-google-antitrust/competition-commission-of-india-fines-google-for-abusing-dominant-position-idINKBN1FS29Z

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?


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @05:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @05:59AM (#635403)

    Is it because you've constructed your very identity around some organization that calls itself "government"?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @06:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @06:16AM (#635410)

    Boo-bloody-hoo, cry me a river.