Google may get hit by €6B fine coz it's slaying competition
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Google faces a record-breaking fine for monopoly abuse within weeks, as officials in Brussels put the finishing touches to a seven-year investigation of company’s dominant search engine.
It is understood that the European Commission is aiming to hit Google with a fine in the region of €3bn, a figure that would easily surpass its toughest anti-trust punishment to date, a €1.1bn fine levied on the microchip giant Intel.
Sources close to the situation said officials aimed to make an announcement before the summer break and could make their move as early as next month, although cautioned that Google’s bill for crushing competition online had not been finalised.
The maximum possible is around €6.6bn, or a tenth of Google’s total annual sales.
It will mark a watershed moment in Silicon Valley’s competition battle with Brussels. Google has already been formally charged with unlawfully promoting its own price comparison service in general search results while simultaneously relegating those of smaller rivals, denying them traffic.
The stakes have been further raised by a new investigation into alleged monopoly abuse related to Google’s Android smartphone software.
It's more complicated than that. The claim, from others reading's I've read, is more focused on the fact that Google has been caught deliberately redirecting and manipulating search results to their benefit. So, if you searched "smart phones," Nexus phones would show up more than other phones to advertise their phones. That's what this is about. Not just people using Google.
It's more complicated than that. The claim, from others reading's I've read, is more focused on the fact that Google has been caught deliberately redirecting and manipulating search results to their benefit. So, if you searched "smart phones," Nexus phones would show up more than other phones to advertise their phones. That's what this is about. Not just people using Google.
I feel like Google should be allowed to manipulate their search results tbh. There are other search engines. If people don't like what Google may or may not be doing then they can always use another search engine. Like who cares if the search engine they made is biased or not.
